Remake of the Day #1: 'Arthur'
When all originality seeps out of Hollywood this is what you get
Variety is reporting Peter Baynham is set to write a remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore comedy Arthur with expectations UK funnyman Russell Brand will take over the title role.
If you aren't familiar with Baynham's name don't worry, I wasn't either, but he was one of the screenwriters on Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat and contributed to the upcoming summer release Bruno which stars Cohen as a flamboyant Austrian fashionista that causes just as much trouble as Borat did, just in a slightly different way.
As for Arthur, the original was nominated for four Oscars and went on to win two including a supporting win for John Gielgud. In the film Moore played a boozy playboy whose plan to marry into a moneyed family goes awry when he falls in love with a working class gal.
Of course, we can't mention Arthur without mentioning Christopher Cross and his Oscar winning tune "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)". And you thought the video I added to this article was just a random one.
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Two problems:
1 Remake
2 Russell Brand
How can something like this get greenlit? With Russell Brand of all people.
My guess is the year "Arthur "went up for Oscars was the year I started a multi-year disinterest in the Oscars. Cute little film, nothing more. But REMAKE?!? This is the death of creativity.
Brad, what do you think of the new film "Franklyn" coming out of GB written and directed by Gerald McMorrow? The buzz is that it shows some real creativity, so I guess the funeral is premature afterall.
At least we already knew this one was coming, its the neverending story and total recall remakes that irk me.
I expected a bunch of comments supporting the remake and a few people squealing over RB in the lead role. I'm glad that's not what I found!
I don't know the first thing about RB but I wouldn't be happy with anyone in this role. Or the movie being remade at all for that matter. Hollywood has a habit of remaking things and then you get all the "Wow, this was the best movie ever! It was way better than the original which I never even saw!" Or, "There was an original?" Ug.
I was gonna say it can't be any worse than when they remade Bedazzled (yeah, I'm a Dudley fan, lol), but I think it will be. If they turn it into one of those wanna-be-hip movies that sells with young people (I sound old). I've already seen people complaining about how alcoholism isn't funny and shouldn't even be portrayed in a movie, much less a comedy, but then neither should murder or whatever else they make movies about.
Way to ruin a nice movie. And if people didn't like the original, way to make a remake so people can get even more annoyed.