Oh No!!! Lavender Hill Mob remake

[DB7]

Odd Lot Remaking Lavender Hill Mob

Source: Variety October 22, 2004





Odd Lot Entertainment has acquired remake rights to The Lavender Hill Mob, with Dean Parisot (Fun with Dick and Jane) attached to direct, reports Variety.



Produced by the Ealing Studios in 1951 and directed by Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda), "Mob" features Alec Guinness as a mild-mannered bank clerk who comes up with a plan to steal a fortune in gold bullion from his employer.



David Sussman will adapt the screenplay. His credits include Locked & Upright at Lions Gate and the adaptation of Being Alexander at New Line Cinema.

[Rob Compton]

Why have I got a sinking feeling at that news



Ah well, we've still got the origial: "By jove, its a good job we're both honest men, isn't it Pendlebury"



rgds

Rob :)

[smudge]

scold It'll all end in bawling

[Hackett]

Why is it that in a supposed creative industry are there people so dull of perception. Please can we find somebody with an original idea in thier head.

[Steve Crook]

</div><div class='quotemain'>HACKETT:

Why is it that in a supposed creative industry are there people so dull of perception. Please can we find somebody with an original idea in thier head. [/b]

There are lots of people with lots of original ideas - but they don't control the purse strings. The ones with the money are very wary of any new ideas and prefer to repeat the same old formula that has been seen to work in the past.



The trouble is - that keeps on making them even more money so they don't see any reason to change.



Steve

[deckard]

Agreed Steve, but where do we go from here? I have this deep concern that in 20 years or so people will be looking back to films made at this time saying that " they don't make 'em like that anymore"! Scary eh? ghostly As a serious question do you know of any remakes of decent orignal films that were actually BETTER the second time around? I'm blankly staring at my PC monitor, but I can't think of any, please, please refresh my memory there must be one somewhere........regards, Decks.

[DB7]

</div><div class='quotemain'>deckard:

As a serious question do you know of any remakes of decent orignal films that were actually BETTER the second time around? [/b]

Scrooge. Sim is easily the definitive miser.



And admit it, you prefer Doris Day in the Man Who Knew Too Much

[Steve Crook]

</div><div class='quotemain'>deckard:

Agreed Steve, but where do we go from here? I have this deep concern that in 20 years or so people will be looking back to films made at this time saying that " they don't make 'em like that anymore"! Scary eh? ghostly

........regards, Decks. [/b]

It's easy, all you have to do is to stop the mindless masses believing the hype and going to see these heavily advertised remakes.



While you're at it you might have a go at curing world hunger & walking on water - they're probably easier to do.



Steve

[Gibbie]

</div><div class='quotemain'>SteveCrook:

</div><div class='quotemain'>HACKETT:

Why is it that in a supposed creative industry are there people so dull of perception. Please can we find somebody with an original idea in thier head. [/b]

There are lots of people with lots of original ideas - but they don't control the purse strings. The ones with the money are very wary of any new ideas and prefer to repeat the same old formula that has been seen to work in the past.



The trouble is - that keeps on making them even more money so they don't see any reason to change.



Steve [/b]

B-I-N-G-O!

[Gibbie]

</div><div class='quotemain'>deckard:

Agreed Steve, but where do we go from here? I have this deep concern that in 20 years or so people will be looking back to films made at this time saying that " they don't make 'em like that anymore"! Scary eh? ghostly [/b]

That would be frightful, Decks!



Can you imagine "Brazil" or "Bladerunner" as reality TV?

[DB7]

</div><div class='quotemain'>SteveCrook:

It's easy, all you have to do is to stop the mindless masses believing the hype and going to see these heavily advertised remakes. [/b]

I'm in the midst of reading a book on Launder and Gilliat and it shows how little has changed in the world of screen writing, when they started out nobody wanted original stories but adaptations of popular novels. Producers want to minimize the risk to their investment and if the story (a remake or adaptation) is familiar to the public they'll feel more confident of success.

[Tiercel]

On the whole I dislike remakes - especially of those films regarded as classics. How long before we get "Citizen Kane" or "The Third Man" remade? Don't the numbskulls with the $$s realise that making a copy of an original doesn't make that copy as valuable. Admittedly there *may* be occasions where a film can be re-made with modern technology but sometimes the technology's not enough.



Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but it's also the sincerest form of laziness. The grandees seem to think that by remaking a film they can cash in on the popularity of the original. They feel they're on to a "safe" bet. What they don't realise is that in many cases what made the original such a success was its uniqueness or was so stunningly different from the stuff being served up at the time!

[Steve Crook]

</div><div class='quotemain'>Tiercel:

On the whole I dislike remakes - especially of those films regarded as classics. How long before we get "Citizen Kane" or "The Third Man" remade? Don't the numbskulls with the $$s realise that making a copy of an original doesn't make that copy as valuable. Admittedly there *may* be occasions where a film can be re-made with modern technology but sometimes the technology's not enough.



Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but it's also the sincerest form of laziness. The grandees seem to think that by remaking a film they can cash in on the popularity of the original. They feel they're on to a "safe" bet. What they don't realise is that in many cases what made the original such a success was its uniqueness or was so stunningly different from the stuff being served up at the time! [/b]

I fully agree - but all the while that enough of the masses fall for the heavy advertising and go and see these remakes then the grandees can cash in on them.



Steve

[Paul E]

I guess they imagine there'll be a market for it......I haven't seen, and don't intend to, The Ladykillers remake but does anyone know how its done at the box office?

When can we expect the Whiskey Galore remake peopled with eccentric Californians with a stash of Panamian cocaine....(actually that may be be quite good!) And how about a Titfield Thunderbolt remake with some more eccentrics trying to run Concorde?

[DB7]

</div><div class='quotemain'>Paul E:

The Ladykillers remake but does anyone know how its done at the box office? [/b]

It broke even or in box-office terms - opened at #2 behind Scooby Doo 2.

[David Brent]

Yet ANOTHER American remake of a not too old British film.

The Farrelly Brothers are currently shooting an American remake of Nick Hornby's FEVER PITCH.

Instead of Arsenal the film will be based around the Boston Red Sox,World(?)Series Baseball Champs.



DUMBER & DUMBER indeed!!!



Dave.

[Gerry C]

Just a point...a newspaper called 'The World' was an original sponsor of the baseball competition, hence the name 'World Series'.

I chose not to see the remake of LHMob and wont spend money on a rehash (or the original) of Hornby either.

Come to think of it...since most UK films are now made with a strong (over-riding?)(HughGrant/RedBuses/Gosfordguffetcetcetc) eye on the US, perhaps its all moot anyway.

[Steve Crook]

</div><div class='quotemain'>Gerry C:

Just a point...a newspaper called 'The World' was an original sponsor of the baseball competition, hence the name 'World Series'.

[snip][/b]

That's been shown to be an urban myth. See refutation. It is really just a bit of arrogance by the competition organisers. It is apparently open to baseball teams around the world - but baseball is only played at that level in the States and a few American connected places or colonies. The World Series has always been won by an American team.



I find it interesting that two of the sports the Americans make such a fuss about, baseball & basketball - are mainly played by schoolgirls here (rounders & netball). Yet the sport that's probably the biggest in the rest of the world, football (proper football, never call it soccer), is played by women in the States. Strange.



Steve

[deckard]

Mmm strange indeed! Do you think how we perceive the "American Way" is a true representation? Could it be that the media has conditioned us to believe this? Do a large number of Americans sit at home thinking "we're nothing like that", we have to concede that the States has a huge diversity of people from lots of different cultures - put this together and it's bound to seem a little strange to us small Island folk! Take a for instance, a lot of European countries think we're a Nation of football hooligans, but we know this accounts for only a small percentage of the population, most of us detest the hooligan mentality and would have no part in it, but well y'know the tar and the brush syndrome....to be honest I really don't know, there certainly are some strange things to come out of America - Hollywood for one! But whichever way we look at it the U.S. is the most powerful nation on Earth.........go figure! Regards, Decks.

[Steve Crook]

</div><div class='quotemain'>deckard:

Mmm strange indeed! Do you think how we perceive the "American Way" is a true representation? Could it be that the media has conditioned us to believe this? Do a large number of Americans sit at home thinking "we're nothing like that", we have to concede that the States has a huge diversity of people from lots of different cultures - put this together and it's bound to seem a little strange to us small Island folk! Take a for instance, a lot of European countries think we're a Nation of football hooligans, but we know this accounts for only a small percentage of the population, most of us detest the hooligan mentality and would have no part in it, but well y'know the tar and the brush syndrome....to be honest I really don't know, there certainly are some strange things to come out of America - Hollywood for one! But whichever way we look at it the U.S. is the most powerful nation on Earth.........go figure! Regards, Decks. [/b]

Well you know that nice, normal people like us hardly ever get into the newspapers or the TV news. They just want the shocking & outlandish stories. It's the same all over.



Steve