This movie needs to be remade


This movie needs to be remade, but the script needs to be good in order to get an Academy Award nomination. The original movie was a bad adaptation of the novel and was lackluster and it is now largely forgotten. The new version needs to be a good adaptation and must be nominated for an Oscar.

I hope that the new version would be a success. The 1990 version was a flop.

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You're right, I think the book has potential.

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~ The book was totally great, but a remake of wouldn't be a bad ideal if they stuck with the novel.


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The problem is that there are no likeable characters in the book, and no producer wants to make a movie without likeable characters. Trying to make them into likeable characters for the movie just made it worse. It would have to have a much sharper satiric edge to work, so that the audience realizes that they're watching bad things happen to bad people. You'd also need a much longer movie to truly understand the ulterior motives of people who, on the surface, appear to be doing the right thing.

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A remake is a great idea. Don't know if it will happen though.

If it does, they should get P.T. Anderson to direct and Brad Pitt to play Sherman McCoy.

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this movie has great wisdom.... a re-make is due!!!

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It already was remade - the movie was called The Player!

In all seriousness, look at the similarities: the central character, his dilemma, the attack on money-at-all-costs thinking, etc.

Given the book's length and number of characters I don't think another movie would be a good idea: it's just too much to cram into two hours and so much would have to be cut out that the overall cynicism of the book (everyone - from the business types to the power-to-the-people agitators - is self-serving and shameless) would be diluted or destroyed. Perhaps they should have made a miniseries out of it instead; that really could have been something.

But yes, seeing the filmmakers - especially Michael Cristofer - botch this story so badly really makes you wonder what might have been. At least we have Altman's film to fall back on (as well as Schroeder's Reversal of Fortune, which came out just before this one).

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I just finished the book and saw the movie. I thought the book was great but that the movie completely missed the point of the book. It really felt like a series of scenes with no overarching flow or narrative.

I think that in this day and age, it's more relevant than ever and deserves to be remade and updated for the Occupy Wall Street era. I'd like to see it either as a three-hour movie or a miniseries.

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Made for HBO Tv-Mini Series would be the best approach.

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Agreed. Maybe it could take a Rashomon style approach that focuses on a different character's POV (i.e. McCoy, Fallow and Kramer) each episode.

Maybe it's too close to "House of Cards" but I think Kevin Spacey would be a good choice for Sherman McCoy, and their are now tonnes of British actors who could play Fallow.

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