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Spielberg's Next Film Is Harvey - 3/8/2009 8:15:53 AM   
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- 3/8/2009 8:15:53 AM   
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 If ever a film didn't need to be remade...

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Please don't... - 3/8/2009 8:19:24 AM   
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This is a gem of a movie. Unless it can be made into another classic that people will still care about in 60 years - don't touch it. What next... "It's a Wonderful Life" with Adam Sandler? Makes the blood run cold

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Michael Sheen - 3/8/2009 8:43:06 AM   
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I'd like to see Michael Sheen to have a go at this.
(Hey, I'd like him to have a go at anything!)

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There Is No God - 3/8/2009 8:56:46 AM   
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This is the worst remake news I've heard since I heard he was remaking Oldboy with Will Smith. Please Steven, just stop it.

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STOP! - 3/8/2009 9:13:37 AM   
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Will Hollywood just stop remaking everything!!

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- 3/8/2009 9:23:54 AM   
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How on earth is that going to translate into a cynical 21st century world without being saccharine sweet. Oh wait.... it's Spielberg, we're doomed!

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- 3/8/2009 9:48:28 AM   
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 God, I just wish he'd make Lincoln and be done with it. That's gonna turn into one of those pass-it-on-as-producer jobbies, like Memoirs of a Geisha. I've not seen Harvey, but I can appreciate people's ire at it getting remade, but then again I don't object to people making new adaptations of old books/plays, and if anyone's gonna do it, I'd rather it was Spielberg.

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Why, oh why.....? - 3/8/2009 9:50:03 AM   
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 Why doesn't Hollywood start 're-imagining,' rubbish movies instead of messing up ones which have already been done well? Its not like there aren't plenty to choose from! Do people over there even watch films....I gotta wonder.

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Shame on you, Spielberg - 3/8/2009 9:52:09 AM   
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 As one of the most original, inventive directors out there, why is he taking one of the Greatest Films of All Time, with the Greatest Actor of All Time, and remaking it? Will Smith?! Tom Hanks?! (yes, chances are he's after another Oscar...) No one could pull off this role as well as Jimmy Stewart. Chances are, they'll have to have a CGI rabbit, otherwise Hollywood will think that people "Just won't get it". I'd told myself I wouldn't bother responding to Empire news items about yet another remake, but this one, I just had to say something. Leave it alone!

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Hmm i'm not sure how true this is - 3/8/2009 10:19:19 AM   
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Doesn't seem like a move spielberg would make. producing maybe, but directing? Sounds a bit off to me, even the beard would think this is a bad idea wouldn't he? *coughs* Hook

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- 3/8/2009 10:21:14 AM   
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 All of these original projects on his plate an he opts for a remake? Disappointing news.

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HMMMMMMMMMMPH...... - 3/8/2009 10:32:47 AM   
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No Lincoln biopic and he's only producing Matt Helm - to remake a film about an invisible rabbit????? I agree with the voice of fate on this one - my blood is running cold. Sincerely hope that Spielberg isn't entering his doddery old directors phase....

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Remember Field of Dreams... - 3/8/2009 10:40:08 AM   
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 As Kevin Costner's character, Ray Kinsella, says to his daughter when he finds her watching Harvey on TV.
'The man is sick...' or words to that effect.
This is an idea from an industry who is, at present, grasping at straws - the sort of thing you do when you're feeling out of sorts and you're looking for something - ANYTHING - to make you feel good again.
THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
'Farewell and adoo...'

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I recommend pleasant - 3/8/2009 10:59:31 AM   
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Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must never, ever attempt to remake classic films starring James Stewart even if you are Steven Spielberg." You may quote me.

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- 3/8/2009 11:15:25 AM   
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What happened to Interstellar, the intellectual sci-fi project scripted by Jonah Nolan? Chicago Seven -film with Sacha Baron Cohen sounded like a good project too... Now those are (probably) gone and Spielberg is attached to just remakes. Where's the edgy guy who did Munich and Schindler's List?

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- 3/8/2009 11:21:23 AM   
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 Yeah i usually try to keep an open mind about these things but. No...just no. Why do they always keep screwing with the classics? What's next? A Matter Of Life And Death starring George Clooney and set to the contemporary backdrop of Afghanistan? A pumped up Tony Scott version of The Third Man with The Stath as Harry Lime? Or a Scorcese directed remake of White Heat, perhaps? (Actually, the last one don't sound too bad... )
Hollywood needs to check itself really. Hasn't anyone got an original idea there anymore?

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good choice? - 3/8/2009 11:30:21 AM   
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RE: - 3/8/2009 11:30:32 AM   
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 Crap. Even the better directors have run out of creativity. Who's going to be the lead, Keanu Reeves?

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RE: RE: - 3/8/2009 11:32:22 AM   
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Never seen the original. Bring this on. :P

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RE: RE: - 3/8/2009 11:41:24 AM   
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 in the words of many a person on their knees in despair whilst the camera zooms out

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"



Harvey is one of my favourite films ever, its charming. Didn't someone already remake it, and it was terrible. I don't care if God remakes it with friggin' Jesus as the lead, fuck off with this!! Speilberg...why?

I'm sick of reading on here that another film is being remade/rebooted/re-whatevered. I don't care what Hollywood dresses it up as, i'm sick of it. Make something original for once, or remake something that was badly done the first time round.

Remaking Harvey is the last straw, someone should write a letter!

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Lincoln????????? - 3/8/2009 12:05:43 PM   
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When, oh when, is the Berg going to get on and make the film that I want to see i.e. Lincoln?


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Inaction saves lives - 3/8/2009 12:28:35 PM   
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Didn't they remake this already Donnie Darko anyone. No in all seriousness this film does not need to be remade if they do it as a sequel of sorts fantastic. Along with a little known Christmas film. This is Jimmy Stewarts best.

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Hmm. - 3/8/2009 1:21:09 PM   
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 I trust Spielberg. I'd trust Spielberg with my life. He can do a good job of this, I have faith.

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My suggestion - 3/8/2009 3:22:44 PM   
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 they should get bob hoskins in that part... his brother could have been killed and the rabbit comes to him for help coz his boss has been murdered and the rabbit is getting framed for it.....

..if Hollywood can't come up with an original idea -- then why the hell should I?!?!?!

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Lincoln for sure - 3/8/2009 3:24:39 PM   
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I'm with you all the way Bond1971. I'm also waiting for Spielberg to make Lincoln with Liam Neeson as the 16th President. At least that 's who i heard to play President Lincoln, it's a good choice to me at least.

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- 3/8/2009 3:26:47 PM   
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 The thing is, whether or not you think the film needs remaking, you have to conceed that a good amount of teenagers, twenty- and thirty-somethings even, won't bother to watch the original. God forbid, black and white, yada-yada-yada. At the very least this will, hopefully, bring an excellent story to a new crowd who would otherwise have never heard of it.

And as for casting, surely no-one could play Elwood better than Ed Norton? He was only a stumble into alcoholism away from the character in Death To Smoochy, if you ask me!

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Oh for fuck's sake - 3/8/2009 4:08:18 PM   
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 NO. FUCKING. NEED.

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Although... - 3/8/2009 4:09:35 PM   
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 Tom Hanks would be ACE in this!

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He's gone mad in his old age - 3/8/2009 4:31:29 PM   
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First there was news that he, along with Will Smith, were going to remake Oldboy and now mhe aims to remake another classic. This time from the so called 'Golden Age'.


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