Remake
Another pointless remake nobody asked for.
http://www.variety.com/2016/film/news/ben-affleck-witness-for-the-prosecution-1201841040/
Hollywood originality is dead.
shareI'm actually OK with a remake. It's a brilliant story that deserves to be told. A modern audience is unlikely to watch an old black & white movie, so this is probably necessary. What I am NOT OK with is Ben Affleck directing and starring in it. I have serious doubts about his ability to pull it off properly.
shareI'm interested to see what they do with it.
I've never read the book, seen the play, or seen the movie, but I know the story and how it ends. But I'm over 40. I'm guessing there are a lot of 15-30yos who don't know it.
And they might switch it up and come up with a different twist, or re-plot it so there is no twist at all and the focus is on something else.
We'll see...
No audience is modern if they think that their movie selection filter includes the chemistry of the movie strip! In such a case they are nothing more then the usually dumb content consumers. And such dumbheads wouldnt spend time on a masterpiece of storytelling and acting anyway.
shareyep another useless pointless remake from the 50s, and to make it worse we got the Ben I can't act' in his own movie too, we already know the twists and turns in it and shock ending it is pointless.
shareIt was recently remade by the BBC and shiown over the holiday period in Britain. I didn't care for it.
shareI wonder if it's still even happening.
shareA remake is impossible. This movie is completely nested within the culture of the era. There is no way to tell such a movie with the constrains of todays moviemaking. BTW Isnt it sick, that even during the censorship of the 50s movie makers had more freedoms then with todays woke facism?
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