i'm french and i know that brad pitt has bought the rights to remake this film and he wants to play within. The director has said this last year in a french tv show!
the director gela babluani will be the same!!
have you GOT any information? i can't wait
Please Hollywood, please, spare us. Can't you people come up with your own ideas? What could Pitt or any other Hollywood loser possibly do that would improve on what's already a super fine film? Oh yea, I forgot, they could give the roulette winner a cache of babes chasing each other around in high speed cars with a dozen or so explosions. Am I the only one sick of these people copying and mutilating other folks art? Too bad all our fine actors and directors are gone. I'm sure most are rolling over in their graves at what our film industry has become. I'm at least thankful we have some good foreign films being made. Sorry for my rant...
shareRant on my friend. Your qualms are completley justified.
share^I completely agree with Mea! HOw many times must we stand by and watch as Hollywood senselessly butchers great foreign films and turns them into pure crap!
As Roger Ebert says there are only two reasons to remake a film.
1-Film is old and needs an update (13 Tzameti isn't)
2-Film missed it's mark. (13 Tzameti is spot on)
Instead of making a watered down copy of the film, why doesn't Brad Pitt just release the French Version Theatrically in America? I wont go see a re-make, but I would pay to see the original in a theater!
When you laugh, the world laughs with you. when you weep, you weep alone.
... and after you have checked out Nine Queens, check out the remake. There is no better example of a film which just did not need to be remade.
shareThe best remake I've seen is a French remake of a Hollywood film! The Hollywood B-movie "Fingers" was made into the amazing "The Beat that my Heart Skipped".
shareDid you see The Departed. That was a pretty darn good remake, and also one who's rights were bought up by Brad Pitt. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
shareits very said really...
this is getting remade
the warriors
the lives of others
i mean we should have all figured out that when you remake a movie like king kong or psycho
that's it folks, game over, nothing is off limits.
Next stop... remake casablanca
you just wait and see, someone is going to do it .... i just know some unoriginal hack is going to need to get a couple million dollars and casablanca is going to be their answer....or gone with the wind ...or network...or the professional...or city of god... or you know what.... i dont want to even think about all the possibilies
I find everyone's stereotype for American remakes hilarious. No, the remake will not have Sebastien jumping out of an exploding train and running away with naked babes with a million dollars in his pants. I agree that this movie shouldn't be remade, but I have faith in Brad Pitt in that he'll make an adequate remake.
shareYawn. It's always the same thing: "Ooooh, American movies suck." As if every foreign film is Citizen Kane. Americans remake movies because Americans will not read subtitles. You may not like it and you may feel it's ridiculous, but it will not change. That said, Americans are hardly the only nationality to remake films and their remakes of foreign films are oftentimes brilliant films in their own right. The Magnificent 7, Three Men and a Baby, Sommersby, The Birdcage, Down & Out in Beverly Hills, 12 Monkeys, Scent of a Woman, Let Me In, Insomnia, Quarantine, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, are all solid pieces of work that opened the story up to a wider audience. So, yes, I would rather see Americans remake a foreign film few saw, than make a new Brady Bunch movie.
shareIt needs a Hollywood ending with a rich Sebastian wearing an Armani suit and smoking a cigar.
Oh sweet mystery of life at last I have found yuuuuuu
Exactly, you're damn right!
It only misses a beautiful girl running away with him! You know, Hollywood style: just crap!
Did you see Abre los Ojos? Didn't you think it was wonderful and that Penelope Cruz really can act?...and then you saw vanilla Sky.. and everything went to $#!t
It will be the same here, so i hope hollywood leave this movie alone
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one of the guys on "the panel" an Australian tv show once said
"why do American keep making remakes?" "cause they didn't stuff it up the first time"
Hollywood needs to keep it's hands off of Foreign Films. The remakes are rarely good (The Departed, The Ring) but if the original was a good enough movie not to be remade (Infernal Affairs, can't say the same for Ringu), then leave it alone.
Americans need to learn how to read subtitles!!!
I really agree about Hollywood leeching on terrific French work for its own devices. Chabrol's "La Femme Infidele" came out in 1968 and it took Hollywood thirty years to copy it in "Faithless," which wasn't bad but it was said excellently the first time and a repeat in the English language wasn't necessary. Not with all those unemployed Comp Lit Ph.D's out there who can write brilliant subtitles.
shareThe only way I would see a remake to this great movie is if a great Director is attached and Edward Norton plays the lead role. I can't think of another actor that can pull off this role as perfectly as Norton can.
shareI am so DREADING the idea of this being brought to the American market. I like Brad Pitt..but this film film will be RUINED! I'm trying to get as many people I know to see it before they get ruined.
shareI think Brad Pitt is a good actor BUT and a big BUT....I dont think he has the talent to make himself look like a completely innocent scared s***less person who doesnt know wtf is goin on around him. The original actor did a fantastic job of portraying that part, and I like how the film looks realistic by being in a little french town no special effects or gore, u onli concentrate on the character. To remake this would be like remaking the godfather (which Im not gunna go into right now coz talks of leo di caprio and andy garcia doing godfather 4 is criminal).
STOP THIS REMAKE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't see why the filmmakers of these films refuse to sale their rights for the script. You can blame brad pitt and hollywood all you want but in the end its the filmmakers decision. Sure its hard to refuse 1 mill + but if you are a true artist and not a sale out you'll stand up for your film. I know i would. Oh by the way PTA is planning on remaking Citizen Kane. LOL
shareto be honest I dont blame the original directors, some films can be well re-made such as the departed, however most of them are crap because of the people who remake it.
Seriously, what can Brad Pitt do to this film to make it better?
What he can do is up the budget and give the original director more freedom to expand on characters. But if this doesn't happen i see little point in re-making it.
shareHe'll probably give it a Fight Club sensibility and make it far less grim. It will be an utter travesty. Hope it never gets made. I think this movie was an absolute masterpiece and just mind-boggling that it's a first-time director and his brother playing the lead. Incredible performances from both, a perfectly realized film. No way can this film be improved upon, especially by Hollywood.
Next they will remake godfather with tom cruise, brad pitt and paris hilton
shareMaybe that would be fun :D I hope Paris plays the godfather
shareIt's quite obvious by the number of sequels, movies that are obviously set up to be sequels, the crap selection being currently offered at the box office, and, of course, remakes, that Hollywood has run out of new ideas. I can tell you at least one major reason why, too: the education system is breaking down under the crushing state and federal bureaucracies that control it. I say this as a teacher that is afraid of what I see happening: the stifling of creativity (among other things). Brad Pitt will no doubt ruin this film by remaking it, as would probably anyone that would choose to do so. Reform education, give Hollywood an ego check by NOT forking over the money to see their slap-ons and rehashes, and support the foreign movies like this one, then maybe, just maybe, things will improve :) Another vote for halting this remake!!
share> You can blame brad pitt and hollywood all you want but in the end its the
> filmmakers decision.
Of course, you're right, but on the other hand: The audience who will see the remake knowing and appreciating the original will be completely different to the one that will just follow the advertising for the remake like some McDonald's crappy meal figurines - oh, and the fact that Brad Pitt is in it, of course, to go to the theaters. So the artists and makers of the original don't loose any of their work by selling it, but gain some good money to make more good movies. Most of the typical Hollywood audience usually doesn't really know or care if the flick is a remake or not and the knowers usually avoid remakes - at least they should to avoid two hours of frustation.
Which doesn't mean that I hate remakes. They can be a good thing, if done right. But if it is just a cheap capitalization of foreign work than I would actually call it bootlegging (despite the legal crap). Well, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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although im a huge fan of brad pitt
i think that he should leave this movie alone, its already brilliant
i personally think that hollywood is running out of ideas for movies. it seems like there have been so many remakes these past couple years.
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You all are acting like this film is some sort of masterpiece that has no where to go but down. Its a good movie, but not that good.
And stop whinning about the remake. Its the same director, so all this talk about it being ruined by Hollywood is completely moot considering its still going to have the same creative mind behind it. Also, Brad Pitt isn't even listed as a producer for the remake, but even if he is he's got a good track record with producing remakes of foreign films. He's one produced foreign remake: The Departed
I can't verify this, but I've heard that the some of the movie is being filmed this weekend in White Plains, NY and that it "stars" Sam Riley, Jason Statham, Ray Winstone, and Mickey Rourke.
Wikipedia also notes: An American remake of the film is in the works, however Babluani intends to "change a lot of the storyline" and avoid reshooting the original film. He has also indicated that he intends to shoot the remake in color (Screening at the University of Notre Dame, 23 Feb 2007). Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, and Ray Winstone are said to be attached to the project.
Yes, I hate hollywood remakes made for those who won't watch a film with subtitles, but with that being said I'm still not ready to crucify the remake as fast as some of you are.
After all, I was ready to dismiss Funny Games until I saw it and realised that it was a shot for shot remake filmed by the same director. I can understand if it was another director at the helm, but I for one am going to give Babluani the benefit of the doubt that he deserves.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0798817/
no brad pitt listed... thank god.
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