Remake of The Set-Up in the works

Sigh! In my movie universe this is one of the top films of all time. It is a perfect work of art and not something that deserves to be tampered with. A re-make implies The Set-Up can be improved upon. It can't!



You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.

There is NO way this film can be remade. I dont care WHO they get to act in it.

There's pro's and cons of doing this again. One thing is for sure, they won't make it any better. This is a very good film, I won't say it's my favorite or one of the best made but it realises the story perfectly and is as good as this story can posibly be. So that leaves the remakes with two angles. Either they will change it and essentially make another film which makes little sense with films from so long ago that are barely remembered (sadly) by the modern movie goer because it won't really draw extra punters like remaking (however badly) something like Alfie or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre did. The other option is to simply try and make a film as good as the origional but by doing it with modern actors, set in the modern day and in colour it get's it across to a whole new audience. That is what I am hoping they are doing and I don't think this is entirely bad.

The problem is it will be hard to match the origional and if Halle Berrys previous films are anything to go by (*ahem* catwoman *ahem*) they will struggle to even make it remotely good. Finally even if it does match up, it's not going to really appeal to any of it's current fans because we know in advance it's not going to improve apon the origional.

Still I don't object to getting this to a new audience. Even if it's mostly people that hate old films like this because they are black and white and everyone wears suits. Perhaps it will show them that regardless of whatever they feel about that, there were some great ideas around back then.

Anyway it won't make my DVD collection I can say that for sure.

im not surpised if its gettin remade. its a classic, with good acting, good cinematography, and a great boxing sequence. perfect "set up" for a remake

Perhaps the new version intends to be more faithful to the original narrative poem by March. I still don't believe it's a good idea to remake this film, and it can't have the impact March's story would have had if it had been made about a black boxer as the writer intended. It might have influenced some people at that time to rethink racial stereotypes--to remake it now and emphasize this aspect is too little, too late.

A re-make of this? Why? It's perfect. All the small roles of the fight crowd, "Little Boy's" cold menace, Robert Ryan's well realized character and the amazing look and feel of the film, sheer perfection.

Oh, and Audrey Totter's sultry "hotness!" "A dollar sixteen? You should give a floor show."

Gotta love a woman like that.

A remake? They'll blow it by overdoing it.

Ordinarily I would be, but at its heart The Set-Up is a simple enough story that if they set it in the present and did't just ape the classic it might turn out alright. In some ways the story is actually more apropriate for the boxing world of 2006 than of 1949.

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