New Bonnie and Clyde... what do you think?

[RBH]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/26/worst-idea-ever-hilary-duff-to-star-in-bonnie-and-clyde-remake/

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

I am more or less in agreement with that blogger.

 

[Lady Day]

Maybe there will be a couple of dance routines in it. You gotta market the My Space layouts some how!

LD

 

[scotrace]

It's so off the map there must be more to it or it's a joke. Like Hanna Montana is going to play Ilsa Lund.

 

[maggiethespy]

It's so off the map there must be more to it or it's a joke. Like Hanna Montana is going to play Ilsa Lund.

T.S. Eliot was wrong. THIS is the way the world ends.

 

[carter]

It's so off the map there must be more to it or it's a joke. Like Hanna Montana is going to play Ilsa Lund.

Or Joan Crawford in a remake of Mommie Dearest (the musical).

 

[Sefton]

...or maybe she is just right to play a poor,uneducated and naive young girl who falls for a bank robber and writes bad poetry...

nah,just kidding. It'll be awful.

 

[texasgirl]

This is for real. The production company making this movie has been to the Bonnie & Clyde festival for at least the last 3 years. I'm a little perplexed at their casting choices. But I am trying to keep an open mind

http://www.cypressmoonproduction.com/html/in-development.html

 

[Tomasso]

Faye Dunaway was just getting her feet wet in acting when she was cast in B&C.

Just sayin'. [huh]

 

[texasgirl]

Maybe there will be a couple of dance routines in it. You gotta market the My Space layouts some how!

LD

There's actually already a musical

http://www.bonnie-clyde-themusical.com/

 

[Caity Lynn]

I will NOT go off on my remake rant, I will NOT go off on my remake rant, I will NOT go off on my remake rant....*takes deep breath*

All I will say is this, I don't mind her, but It could be SOOOOOOOOOOOO much worse.It could Be Miley Cyrus or *shudder* Ashleigh Tisdale.

 

[Feraud]

Faye Dunaway was just getting her feet wet in acting when she was cast in B&C.

Just sayin'. [huh]

Very good point. Most people are unaware of the many models, girlfriends, pretty faces standing in lines at grocery stores, and dancing girls were cast in pictures based on their looks only to later be considered legitimate actresses. Everyone starts somewhere.

Considering remakes have been around nearly as long as film itself, I'd say either Hollywood was never very creative ( a definite possibility) or remakes are part and parcel of the overall history of film making.

Having said all that, I suspect this will stink!

 

[texasgirl]

Now, this would have been good if it had gotten the money needed to be finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wS7WMOpXo


Also,
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http://texashideout.tripod.com/bc_files.html

 

[Girl Friday]

Well, the original is all but unwatchable, so why would a remake be any different.

 

[Sefton]

Well, the original is all but unwatchable, so why would a remake be any different.

The collective good taste and wisdom of the IMDB says the original is great so it must be, right?

(IMDB top 250 films lists the Matrix at number 30 and The Philadelphia Story at number 234).

 

[Girl Friday]

:eusa_doh:

 

[Charlz]

Good Lord, say it isn't so. What next?!?! Will Pee Wee Herman play Steve Mcqueen's Capt. Hilts in a remake of the Great Escape? I can see the the little weirdo riding his bike as the Germany's WWII-era leaderships chase him into the barbed wire. For the sake of all that is holy...

 

[Story]

Fort Worth author Jeff Guinn revisits the violent couple -- Bonnie and Clyde, not Warren and Faye -- and their associates in his thoroughly researched and highly readable narrative, "Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde" (Simon & Schuster, $27 hardcover).

http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/may/02/texas-author-takes-in-depth-look-at-bonnie-and/

 

[Fletch]

Good Lord, say it isn't so. What next?!?! Will Pee Wee Herman play Steve Mcqueen's Capt. Hilts in a remake of the Great Escape? I can see the the little weirdo riding his bike as the Germany's WWII-era leaderships chase him into the barbed wire. For the sake of all that is holy...

lol

You have a point, tho. Remakes don't happen unless there is a box office name. The point of remaking B&C may be B&C or it may be Hilary Duff, but without the Hilary interest no one will even schedule a lunch meeting.

The director is one Tonya S. Holly, whose last pic apparently was about a little girl and a cute dog and is labeled FAMILY APPROVED. This and Hilary's rep as a kid star are not good signs. Not NOT NOT.

I can't help wondering what a 30s nut like Terry Zwigoff could have done with B&C. There'd have been all kinda off-looking character actors, King-James-chapter-and-verse period roots music, and loads of quiet hipster irony amid the *** 'n violence. And Chloë Sevigny as Bonnie Parker. Mmmmm.

 

[Down2BDapper]

Hilary Duff is Bonnie Parker.

I kid you not.

http://screenrant.com/bonnie-clyde-remake-hilary-duff-sabrina-5199/

I guess I shouldn't judge until it's out, but I'm guessing it won't be good.