Should 'The Other Side of Midnight' be remade?

They "could" remake it and I am sure the actors/actresses you named for the parts would be appropriate, but,....why bother?? WAIT! I take that back. I think that it should be remade, but as a comedy. Ironically, I am NOT joking when I suggest that. It could be comical-

For instance: Show Nicole as the agressor in pre WWII France; desperate for a man she drags a very nervous Larry into an apartment (actually, sort of what happens in real life a lot).

Noelle Page ... Audrey Tautou, Kristin Scott Thomas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Green, or Keira Knightley

Larry Douglas ... Russell Crowe too old and ugly , Gerard Butler, Daniel Craig, please he ruined 007 wasn't that enough? or Hugh Jackman, anyway Larry's American lets leave him that way

Catherine Douglas ... Kate Beckinsale, Gwyneth Paltrow, Maria Bello, or Rachel Weisz






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A resounding NO! The Other Side of Midnight is a definitive masterpiece. I'm shocked it didn't win an academy award... It certainly deserved one!

I'm also really surprised the ratings for it on here are low. This is Sidney Sheldon's crowning achievement. The Betsy was good, too, but this film was far superior & is still richly engrossing.

Absolutely not, the essence of a classic cannot be recaptured.

I read the book when I was in middle school..as I read a lot of Sidney Sheldon's work. He kinda suffered from what I now call "Stephen King" syndrome. Books are great, movies....eh.... to gosh awful ....with few exceptions.

If they were to remake this for the big screen..they better hire one hell of a screenwriter. Noelle Page was not chopped liver and Catherine was much stronger than shown. Larry Douglas was a cad but more of a womanizing cad we never got to see on the screen, just hear about it. His time in the air fighting for countries just made him an egotistical, womanizing cad.

For me this would be in the bunch of "films to redo" now along with "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (which I think Lindsay Lohan would be wonderful to star in and re-surge her career) and "The Sentinel" (the one where the model gets 'tricked' into guarding the gates of Hell).

If naught a good feature film screenwriter is found, then a remake of this, regardless of who is cast as what...will end up on Lifetime, WE or the Oprah Winfrey Network type movie of the month.

"Santa knows when you've been bad. Maybe I can cop a plea. -Garfield"

These kinds of epic "torn from the pages of the searing best seller!" soap operas were going out of style even when "Other Side" was made. They're not even made as TV miniseries anymore. No one would remake this, save (as one commenter above suggested) perhaps as a spoof.