Apparently, if you’re an executive at Warner Brothers, you get exactly the right ingredients to remake one of old Hollywood’s most sparkling jewels, namely 1934′s superlative and surprisingly enduring comedy-mystery The Thin Man. The film, for those of you who don’t know, is based on a novel by the great Dashiell Hammett, and centres around a wealthy, witty, hard-drinking married couple who end up entangled in a murder mystery during a Christmas visit to New York. Johnny Depp (for it is he) has been dragging his pitch for a remake around Tinseltown for a while now, and it seems as though the project is finally getting off the ground, with release tentatively scheduled for 2013, although given Depp’s committment to the PotC franchise, this date might well get pushed back. UPDATE: It was. Deadline reports that the movie is been flung into production deep freeze. And the gods rejoiced.
Thursday 24 March 2011
The real mystery of the Thin Man reboot is what exactly is the point?
What do you get when you mix the director of the latest in the rapidly deteriorating Pirates of the Caribbean series, the screenwriter of that revered classic Bad Boys 2 and an actor who reached his dramatic peak in 1997 and hasn’t put in a really interesting performance since 2004?
Apparently, if you’re an executive at Warner Brothers, you get exactly the right ingredients to remake one of old Hollywood’s most sparkling jewels, namely 1934′s superlative and surprisingly enduring comedy-mystery The Thin Man. The film, for those of you who don’t know, is based on a novel by the great Dashiell Hammett, and centres around a wealthy, witty, hard-drinking married couple who end up entangled in a murder mystery during a Christmas visit to New York. Johnny Depp (for it is he) has been dragging his pitch for a remake around Tinseltown for a while now, and it seems as though the project is finally getting off the ground, with release tentatively scheduled for 2013, although given Depp’s committment to the PotC franchise, this date might well get pushed back. UPDATE: It was. Deadline reports that the movie is been flung into production deep freeze. And the gods rejoiced.
Apparently, if you’re an executive at Warner Brothers, you get exactly the right ingredients to remake one of old Hollywood’s most sparkling jewels, namely 1934′s superlative and surprisingly enduring comedy-mystery The Thin Man. The film, for those of you who don’t know, is based on a novel by the great Dashiell Hammett, and centres around a wealthy, witty, hard-drinking married couple who end up entangled in a murder mystery during a Christmas visit to New York. Johnny Depp (for it is he) has been dragging his pitch for a remake around Tinseltown for a while now, and it seems as though the project is finally getting off the ground, with release tentatively scheduled for 2013, although given Depp’s committment to the PotC franchise, this date might well get pushed back. UPDATE: It was. Deadline reports that the movie is been flung into production deep freeze. And the gods rejoiced.
Friday 4 March 2011
Three Came Home (1950)
Dir.: Jean Negulesco
Plot: A colonial official's wife struggles to survive imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp in Borneo.
To be honest, I downloaded Three Came Home simply because the story sounded interesting. Empire of the Sun is one of my favourite movies and I do love a good POW drama, especially ones like this that are based on a true story. However, I could not have known that I was about to discover one of my all-time favourite films. So many things about it knocked me for six, but the first and foremost of these has to be Claudette Colbert's lead performance as Agnes Keith.
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