Remake of The Big Sleep

[John in Covina]

No matter who you get and who makes the film, they'll be shoddy reflections of works of art. You'll never find a director & producer who'll stick to the original story. You'll never find a screenwriter who will stick to the original story. They never, ever do, and then they wonder why everyone hates their new version when held up next to the original. New plot twists, new characters, new involvements, changes of motivation, etc. The the stars come in with their wacky ideas of how their part would be better if they did this or that different than the script...

There's only been one film I can say was successfully remade - Maltese Falcon. Two different versions that strayed from the original story, and then finally, the Bogart/Huston version that stuck to the original story.

But why waste time coming up with "perfect" alternate casts to movie? They'll never ever happen. Even if you ended up with that cast, they won't play it the way you'd want it to be played.

And in short, why screw around with something that was already done perfectly (or as close to perfect as could be) in the past? Nobody will ever be satisfied with the crappy remake.

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Sounds like somebody got a lump of coal in their stocking!

This is a type of imagination game called "What IF" where you get to engage in speculation about something that probably won't happen but the "fun" is to come up with ideas as to who might be good now at this time.

Think of it this way: imagine the Bogart version had not been done and you were handed a marvelous script, how would you try to construct the film TODAY?

 

[repeatclicks]

I could see Billy Bob Thornton before some of the ones on the list.

Nah, in my opinion his personality is far too dry. Zero youth left in him, zero attitude. Slingblade, anyone?

 

[Chas]

Re-making this film...what would be the point? Hollywood suffers from severe poverty of ideas to be sure, but I doubt that they would unless they were in real financial trouble. They'd have to take time off of making teen vampire movies.

 

[lolly_loisides]

Re-making this film...what would be the point? Hollywood suffers from severe poverty of ideas to be sure, but I doubt that they would unless they were in real financial trouble. They'd have to take time off of making teen vampire movies.

They could always try a vampire version of the Big Sleep lol

 

[Widebrim]

Then of course as has been mentioned before in other threads, there's the 70's remake of Farewell My Lovely, which I consider Mitchum's finest hour, and one of the great Noir films.

Absolutely agree.:eusa_clap

 

[filfoster]

Jon Ritter's Revenge

Nah, in my opinion his personality is far too dry. Zero youth left in him, zero attitude. Slingblade, anyone?

French fried potaters...with mustard.

 

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Light Bite

[QUOTE=ly_loisides]They could always try a vampire version of the Big Sleep [/QUOTE]


lol lol

You know someone, somewhere in the film industry, has thought of this.

 

[Leesensei]

They could always try a vampire version of the Big Sleep lol

Hey they are already making a film of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". Who knows a Vampire version might be next on the list.