I would like to see Claudia Christian in the title role (she is a singer in addition to being an actress) and Jessica Collins as Norma (she had a very girlie voice for her role as Mindy Church in Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman).
shareActually, I would be more interested to see the *original* version from Weimar Republic era Germany, Viktor und Viktoria (of course, I would need a copy with English subtitles).
shareAnnie Lennox would be perfect--she's beautiful as a woman, and has a deep, sultry voice. She'd be much more believable as a possible-man than Julie Andrews. Imagine Annie in a tuxedo, standing in front of that piano, singing "Crazy World".
Yeah, they're dead; they're--all messed up!
Oh Please God. Please don't let Anne Hathaway destroy the legacy of anymore classics!!!
sharewhat about Kristin Chenoweth? I think she would be awesome and has the singing chops for this part.
It won;t happen. This film not a bomb but it wasn't a huge hit it "Broke even". Years later the broadway adaption was a huge bomb.
I think if this film was made and released today it would be a hit. The film was ahead of its time and the film deserves the word "classic" attached to it.
This film was part of a 1930s nostalgia-wave in the early '80s (along with "Pennies from Heaven," "Annie," "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" and others). The key to nostalgia is that it most appeals to, and is often made by, people who lived through the era... but today most folks who were alive in the 1930s are dead, which is why very few modern films are set in that period (excluding schmaltzy TV remakes of dramas like "Mildred Pierce" and "Bonnie and Clyde"). I can't imagine anyone redoing it today... or how badly it would suck. It's practically perfect in every way, so let's leave it alone!
As for the movie's success upon initial release, countless classics were released in 1982, many of which were not successful at the time -- because "E.T." was utterly PUMMELING all of the competition. "Victor/Victoria" had a little bit of an edge, getting released a month before Spielberg's alien was unleashed upon the world, but movies didn't simultaneously open on 10,000 screens in those days, so it still wound up playing against the Reece's Pieces monster... and compounding matters, Andrews was never able to shake her wholesome image, and the country wouldn't embrace openly gay characters until "The Birdcage," "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," "Ellen" "and "Will & Grace," which all came more than a decade later. There was really a lot going against this film, but it was so well made and ahead-of-its-time that it has become something of a classic. Just not enough of one to warrant yet another inferior remake.
Just couldn't do it today. No actors to compare to this cast at the peak of their careers. Way ahead of its time, today it would be common place even by tv standards.
shareJust a minor point of order:
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid wasn't 30s nostalgia. It was 40s film noir that they were spoofing.
....assassins need to be immediately dispatched to terminate the moron who's planning on doing this with extreme prejudice and in the most drawn out and painful method possible as a warning to anyone else who would think about doing it.
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