topper a very good movie
Topper was a very good movie and now i hear that the movie is going to be remade. Why do they remake movies, i mean the original movies always turn out better.
shareRemaking Topper with today's movie makers who know nothing about great film? Awwww that's a tragedy of the greatest dimension. Unfortunately it is man's lot in life to recreate when he can't be creative by his own doing, and also man's lot in life to fake doing a good job when he doesn't have the slightest idea what he's doing.
shareI agree.A remake of Topper might be good,but nothing will compare to the original Topper.
"Oh Hoss,I paid two dollars for this," Joe Cartwright in The Bonnaza episode: The Gunmen.
Let's not forget the TV series from the 50's, with Leo G. Carroll as Topper, Anne Jeffreys as Marion and Robert Sterling as George. Not having seen the original films (I was in elementary school), I thought it was wonderful and it was one of my favorite TV series as long as it was on. Ditto for The Thin Man, with Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk.
While I came to appreciate classic films, I don't believe one must choose between classic films and high-quality TV series based on the same novels. Unfortunately, the studios don't look so far back for their material anymore and we end up with shows that are poor imitations of more recent movies/TV series. I'm not sure a Topper movie would be a good idea - most of Thorne Smith's material is seriously dated, from a different era entirely - but with wise casting it might make a good TV show, especially with the current emphasis on the supernatural.
Last I heard, Steve Martin had signed on to be in the remake of TOPPER.
I haven't heard much more about it except that a script apparently has been finished but not much news on when they may start filming it.
Personally, I hope that if they do a remake that they try to keep the spirit of the book in it somehow.
Michael
http://www.ThorneSmith.net
Me too! As a little boy watching the Topper TV series, I thought the Kerbys were the height of adult sophistication. Loved it. Twas years later before I saw the originals.
I vaguely recall the TV Thin Man. Sounds fun.
Usually, I detest remakes, but the TV version of Topper was great fun...at least from this "kid's" perspective.
IMo a tv version of a film that preceded it is by definitin going to be structured differently, with periodic installments replacing a film with a contained narrative arc. That is a different thing than a remake.
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