Id love to see a new movie of showboat and I am not a fan of remakes usually. The story is ahead of its time and the music byt jerome kern is as good as any show EVER.
Id love to see Linda Eder in the role of Julie. That would be spectacular!
I'd LOVE to see Ewan McGregor as Gay! Although I don't know if his voice can go that low... :P
shareHe would be totally unsuitable. The role of Ravenal is written for someone with an excellent tenor or baritone voice, not a crooner.
shareI'm only in favor if they do a remake that would make it better....I think the odds are against them, not that it can't be done, but they never do seem to do remakes well....interesting idea though.
Read My Lips!!!!
I watched a little bit of the movie (before I was forced by exhaustion to take a nap this afternoon), and I kept thinking how Fergie (from the Black-Eyed Peas) would make a good Julie. Granted, she can't really act, and I'm not sure the songs are really in her range, but @ least she'd have the "Julie look." Hollywood would never consider her, though--it'd have to be like in an MTV re-imagining of it, or something. (And before I get bashed, this was just on my mind and I had to get it out! I'm a big fan of Ava Gardner--I'm reading her autobio, in fact--and in no way do I think Fergie comes anywhere near her talent.)
"...ultimately, I want to be nominated for a picture in which I don't even appear." --Ellen Burstyn
I would be in favour of a remake as long as they stick to the show. None of the other versions have.
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brt374, how funny that you wrote this two years ago and now Fergie is in the film of the Broadway musical Nine! I guess someone out there shares your faith in her potential.
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
I thought Beyonce, Thandie Newton, Alicia Keys, Amber Stevens, Denise Vesi, Bianca Lawson, Nicole Lyn and Keke Palmar would all be great choices for Julie and Magnolia if there were a remake.
Scarlett: Sir, you are no gentleman.
Rhett Butler: And you, Miss, are no lady.
Somehow, I don't think the theme of "miscsgenation" would go over well today, especially with the numerous interracial marriages now--Seal and Heidi Klum, for example.
And the earliest scene--taking place in the late 1880's--showed black people picking cotton and doing other such menial work for "massa". Not exactly PC, you know.
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shareI think Ewan McGregor is occasionally seen as Gay.
"I say,open this door at once! We're British !"
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Where would we find equal.talent these days?
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