The Book adaption was so bad a remake should be done. It should be faithful to the book and keep the story set in the 1980's.
A 2 Part made For HBO film would be the best approach for a new adaption
I agree. the screen adaptation from the novel was terrible. I have tried to like the movie but, being a huge fan of the book, I just thought the movie was terrible. The screenwriters missed the point of the book entirely. But, it is difficult to portray the details of a 700 page book in a 2 hour movie. A 3 part, 6 hour miniseries might be able to follow the book a lot more closely. But it really does not need to be set in the 80's. Every aspect of the book is still a reality of today. Wall Street greed, legal systems that cave in to activists, reporters with a personal agenda, activists with an agenda, etc. Vain people coming together to create a bonfire is just as much a reality today as it was 30 years ago.
shareWell keeping it in the 1980's is a way to add humor without jokes... It also can show how the greed decade without commenting on it
I don't think anything really has changed since the 80's. There are just as many vanities today (or maybe oven more) as in the 80's. The Wall Street broker, the DA that wanted to move up the political ladder, the reporter that wanted wealth and fame, the community organizer that wanted power. How the legal system can fail when there are politics at work. The movie could be set in 2014 and the only change necessary would be clothing styles and background music. The book might even be more relevant today as it was 30 years ago.
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So true but today with Social Media that would almost have to be added to the narrative. The original writer of the book may should be involved in an adaption of his own book into a screenplay. I would trust his "revisions" to the story.
Agreed with the OP! That would be an interesting idea!
Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.
~ It would be great to see Bonfires of the Vanities into a mini-series. Especially one that is closest to the novel. It was such a great book and the movie wasn't much to it.😓
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Recasting The Bonfire of the Vanities
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/b2znq9/recasting_the_bonfire_of_the_vanities/
Sherman McCoy: Tom Hanks is a fine actor but I think he was miscast in this movie or De Palma didn’t direct him well. Either way, I think Topher Grace would make a perfect McCoy. He’s got a punchable face but also the dramatic range to take you through the character’s arc. I feel he played a similar character in Traffic to great effect.share
Peter Fallow: The alcoholic journalist maybe the least scrupulous character in the novel. After watching Billy Bob Thornton in Fargo, I know he could bring that same energy to Fallow: charismatic but completely immoral. If he can do an English accent, he’s in.
Larry Kramer: This character gets completely sidelined in the movie but in the novel, his story serves as a moral counterpoint to McCoy’s. I think Russell Crowe has the dramatic and physical prescience to make this character work.
Judy McCoy: Rosamund Pike has the icy quality you need for the interior decorator WASP who can do anything but love her husband.
Maria Ruskin: this character isn’t as dumb as she appears in the movie and, while she’s the source it’s best lines, it would probably work better with modern audiences if she were closer to the book. You need someone who can play the young yet opportunitistuc “Fox”. This is probably the hardest role for me to cast but I’m going to go with Anna Taylor Joyce. If you’ve seen Thoroughbreds you’ll see what I mean.
Reverend Bacon: I lied. This is the hardest role for me to cast. Mahershala Ali? Denzel? Idris Elba? Who you got?
The Mayor: I’d give this to John Lithgow. It’d be a cameo that would just be the first pages of the novel.
Judge Kovitsky: Alan Arkin. He looks perfect for the part.
I actually liked F Murray Abraham as the DA. If movie magic allows him to keep his role in this, I would totally do it.