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The 1st person to here about a remake? ----(May 31st 2004)

posted 21 years ago by P-e-t-e-r-Marwood
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hi,

ive just heard that they are going to remake this film and i just wanted to prove to a couple of friends by the time it comes out that i seen it long before it got a big buget remake.

its happened with films like Oceans Eleven, Vanilla sky (Open your eyes), and more importantly The Lady Killers.

As soon as they get remade everybody jumps on the band wagon and says that they have seen the original....or dont believe you when you say you seen the original first (thinking your probably just saying it to look cool and havnt actually)

Well i have seen GAMBIT, its a great little movie and one that deserves to be seen in its original form.

I have no idea if the sequel will be any good, but heard that Jennifer Aniston is taking on the female lead this time.

So heres proof that ive seen it. A few other recomendations would be:

Doctor Terrors Vault of Horror (peter cushing as a fortune teller on a train)

oh and The Bells of Saint Trinians. (they'll do it with Britney probably)

THESE ARE BOUND TO GET REMADE AT SOME POINT IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS

I GUARANTEE IT

peter marwood

[–] pogo_sport 21 years ago

P. Marwood,
I've also seen Gambit too and enjoyed it very much so. I am a huge Michael Caine fan and I thought Shirley MacLaine played very well with Caine. I haven't hear anything about a remake of this movie. I don't know if I'll go out and watch it. I generally perfer the originals of movie and not the remakes Hollywood tries to push off to get people on the bandwagon. I definantly agree with you on that. Most of the movies I like have had remakes which look far INFERIOR to the original. Movies such as Ocean's Eleven with the Rat Pack, such as The Manchurian Candidate (also starring Sinatra) are all classic originals. I don't think this remake will be as good as Michael Caine's. Though I guess we'll have to wait and see. Do you have anymore info. on who will be playing Harry Dean?

[–] wildstrawbe 20 years ago

They actually are going to remake this movie. I really love the original and I'm probably going to see the remake too even though I hate remakes.

Jennifer Aniston and Ben Kingsley will be in it, but they obviously haven't found who will play Harry Dean.

[–] amhfanpage 20 years ago

Just heard that it might be Colin Firth who plays the role, although I'm not sure yet. We just got the news he will star in Gambit, starring as a art curator? Is that the role of Harry Dean?

I have not seen Gambit, it was made in the year I was born. *LOL* And I can't remember ever seeing it on TV.

But if Colin is playing in the re-make I will certainly watch it. I'm a big fan of him!

DD4me2

[–] agent_jimmy 19 years ago

i'd vote for jude jaw to play dean. not cause i like him...just cause that's who the studios would pick

[–] mrscifiguy 19 years ago

Remakes are made for one reason only...money! Instant name recognition gets viewers into the theatre faster than anything. There are thousands of books waiting to be produced as movies, but they'll have to wait till every movie ever shot is remade and remade again.

Get a life, read a book.

[–] neil_mc 19 years ago

I can't imagine remaking this film is for money considering nobody has seen this original.

But nobody ever considers remakes as superior to the source material so there's no need to worry - remakes just exist and are there, without ever meaning anything to anybody.

"We're making a film here, not a movie."

[–] TheRonco5000 19 years ago

Another Hollywood remake. I hope this one will be better than some of the others that have some out latley.

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[–] vircar2 18 years ago

The Italian Job was a remake too.

[–] dathaler 17 years ago

...as was "The Thomas Crown Affair"

[–] Risselada 18 years ago

This looks like the remake you may be expecting

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0404978/

"People should get beat up for stating their beliefs"
--They Might Be Giants

[–] samanthaseaotter 18 years ago

Look it up right here - scheduled to be out in 2009 and with Colin Firth as Harry Dean and Ben Kingsley as Shabandar. And I don't know what some idiot is thinking, but Jennifer Aniston as Nicole. (As if she could ever compare to Shirley MacLaine!)

I like the rest of the cast but god, I hate remakes. And the original was so clever and fun.

Samantha
"Nobody's perfect."

[–] dathaler 17 years ago

AMEN samanthaseaotter. Who's gonna wanna steal a statue with Jennifer Aniston's nose?

[–] P-e-t-e-r-Marwood 16 years ago

Weird. Its over four years since i made this post and the film still aint out.

Looks like i was right about Saint Trinians though, although Gemma Arterton from Tess of the D'Urburvilles and the next Bond film was a much better choice than, as i put it, a Britney.

I'm worried about Ben Kingsley as i happened to catch the end of Thunderbirds on ITV2 last Sunday. Erm....

[–] mojo2004 14 years ago

But you were right. I don't usually like remakes but I think Colin Firth & Cameron Diaz could pull this off. But the original is still 24k gold in my book!

"Where were you born? At home. I wanted to be near my mother."

[–] TongueFu 12 years ago

Is that a money-back guarantee, Peter?
By the way, it's hear, not here.

[–] IMDB_Vits 10 years ago

The Lady Killers

Whoa! That remake was also written by the Coen brothers! Foreshadowing?

[–] bradnorton 9 years ago

Dude is psychic.

~This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

[–] Prismark10 9 years ago

The Coens should be trying to avoid remakes.

It's that man again!!

[–] IMDB_Vits 9 years ago

What about TRUE GRIT?