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Like a sweet, flaky Danish made with rancid butter, the possibility of a Breakfast at Tiffany's remake is impossible to keep down. Now gossip guru Liz Smith quotes Anne Hathaway as saying it would be "simply divine" to play Holly Golightly in a remake of the 1961 film that starred Audrey Hepburn in the same role. Okay, no, it wouldn't. Just ask Jennifer Love Hewitt about trying to recreate anything that Hepburn did first. Not so divine, was it?
Over the last few years there have been various threats to add this movie to the long, long list of remade properties, with Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford at one point rumored to be interested in buying the rights. Since it apparently didn't come to pass, maybe he had already learned his lesson from starring in another Hepburn movie remake.
Now, the problem isn't just that there are so many remakes out there already that it's eyeroll inducing to learn of another one. (And, frankly, as Smith notes, the remake would be based more on the original Truman Capote novella of the same name, which is edgier and more clearly spells out that Holly is engaged in the world's oldest profession.) The problem isn't just that Audrey Hepburn is so iconic that no one can replace her, no matter how waifishly brunette and talented they are. No, the other problem is having to listen to all your friends argue about this for the next however many months or years it takes to get the project off the ground. In one corner, you'll be hearing from your Hepburn devotee friends about what blasphemy it is, and in the other you'll be hearing from all your friends who think people are just sooo uptight. The Internet will be awash in bickering, from breakfast to dinner and beyond.
What do you think? Let the bickering commence!
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In the Capote novella, not only is Holly a call girl, the narrator/hero is gay. And the period is the late 1940's.
Would Hollywood really base a remake more on the novella than the original movie did? Somehow I don't think so.
Actually, clack, Hollywood remade Willy Wonka into Charlie with more basis on the book than the original movie. (not that the Charlie version was 100%, but it was more book-ish).
The Shining remake (widely panned) was also a 'true to the book' remake.
The novella actually took place during the early 1940's because it's set during WWII (in 1943). And when Holly's brother Fred dies it's in combat.
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What happened to all the screen writers did they all go brain dead at once.....c'mon hollywood, pump out something new and stop ruining the classics! Punks!
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