Yes to The Beguiled remake!!!!!

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Amazing news!

Great/gritty/dark story set within the background of the Southern States (imagine the great environment/landscape which is already beautiful in itself combined with her visual style and sountrack strengths). This sounds great. Cannot wait for the Venice Filmfestival 2017 (or Cannes Filmfestival 2018?) or whenever the film celebrates its debut...

I love the creepy, corrupted feeling of the original. At first I was disappointed it would be remade. But I think Coppola could get the gothic horror feeling of the story.

She should get Tom Cruise for the deserter role that Clint Eastwood played.

I know he is everywhere now and people will maybe roll their eyes but maybe DiCaprio for the role of the soldier?

Leo is an interesting choice. But he doesn't strike me as a man who can be courtly. He just doesn't have that kind of energy about him. I would say Matt Damon. But he is also around the same type as DiCaprio.

What we need is someone who can be predatory but also fool everyone into thinking he is sincere. Most male actors right now just don't have that kind of vulnerability.

Oscar Isaac would be good. But he doesn't have the face of the time period.

Yes, you could be right about those actors. Maybe Ryan Gosling?

[I think the following actor would've been great, if he was alive because you mentioned "vulnerability" and "predatory": Heath Ledger.]

Or how about "kinda resurrecting" the career of someone who already have played in a SC film (he was Trip Fontaine in "The Virgin Suicides"): Josh Hartnett.

Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's interesting that the time period between her films (not counting her short film LtS (1998) and HBO film AVMC (2015)) is constantly four, three, four, three, four years...

TVS (1999), LiT (2003), MA (2006), S (2010), TBR (2013), TB (2017)...

Regarding that pattern, the next one after "The Beguiled" will come out again after only three years of time (i.e. in 2020).