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It’s Official: Steven Spielberg is Remaking “West Side Story,”
Showbiz 411 ^ | 01-25-2018 | Roger Friedman

Posted on 01/25/2018 4:51:01 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood

There’s a place for Steven Spielberg, and apparently it’s on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1950s. A casting call has gone out for a remake of “West Side Story,” written by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner, author of Spielberg’s terrific “Lincoln” screenplay and, of course, “Angels in America.”

It’s a pro-forma casting call because, in the end, the new “West Side Story” is going to need stars. Big names. And because of the setting and the time we are in, it’s going to need actual Puerto Ricans or Latinos for the parts of characters like Maria, Anita, and Bernardo. There will be no fudging this in 2018. The casting call says in capital letters: MUST BE ABLE TO SPEAK SPANISH.

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Is there nothing scared??? Well in Hollywood I guess not. I don't know how you remake a film like "West Side Story". That film had so many talented actors, not to mention the talent that wrote and directed it.

I can only imagine the abomination that will be created by Spielburg and updated for the ultimate PC. I remember the original and cannot fathom what will be the end product after a PC Liberal Hollywood gets through with it.

I can't even imagine where they will find any talent worthy of the project, those people just don't exist any more.

1 posted on 01/25/2018 4:51:01 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Let’s face it, remakes generally suck. The original is almost always better. I am quite certain that that will be the case here.
2 posted on 01/25/2018 4:52:41 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Will he pick annoying nobodies to play the leads ?


3 posted on 01/25/2018 4:54:10 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Why?

Does he think there needs to be a PC version?

ML/NJ

4 posted on 01/25/2018 4:54:32 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: hinckley buzzard

Why not an All-Muslim cast?


5 posted on 01/25/2018 4:54:43 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Let me guess: a gay couple held apart by the conservative, white family on one side and the illegal immigrant family on the other who is afraid that the relationship will cause the racist, homophobic white family to alert the authorities.


6 posted on 01/25/2018 4:55:02 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

“Maria - - - The beautiful sound I ever hear....”


7 posted on 01/25/2018 4:56:15 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I wasn’t a big fan of the story at all. Kind of a take-off of Romeo and Juliet. What was wrong with THAT original?


8 posted on 01/25/2018 4:56:16 PM PST by fwdude (Why is it that the only positive things to come out of LGBT organizations are their AIDS tests?)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Too bad I’m white.

I totally love every song from West Side Story and can sing em all...


9 posted on 01/25/2018 4:56:57 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I am 99.99% sure that it will be unwatchable.


10 posted on 01/25/2018 4:57:33 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: hinckley buzzard

To be fair: Thomas Crowne Affair #2 was better than #1 because it was updated to contemporary elegance...


11 posted on 01/25/2018 4:58:04 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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. What was wrong with THAT original?

No tunes.
12 posted on 01/25/2018 4:59:37 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
In college I took a screen writing class, this was 1981. The professor stated then:

"In the not too distant future we will see an increase in remakes, for two reasons: "Most of the best stories have been written and good people will be running out of original ideas"

I'd say Spielberg has run out of good ideas.

13 posted on 01/25/2018 4:59:40 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I tried to start a chapter of the Jets in my high school.

Some of the guys wanted to know what it was all about.

So I started jumping around and snapping my fingers.

They beat the hell out of me.


14 posted on 01/25/2018 4:59:59 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Captain Peter Blood

In related news . . .

300 Dead Sharks Found on Roadside May Be Work of Mexican Cartels

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3625802/posts


15 posted on 01/25/2018 5:00:51 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Democrats call Americans "Deplorables" and illegal aliens "Dreamers".)
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To: Captain Peter Blood; Impy; BillyBoy; Clemenza; GOPsterinMA; LS; NFHale

It will feature an illegal Guatemalan tranny as “Maria” and a Mohammadan ISIS member and aspiring rapper named, what else ? Mo.


16 posted on 01/25/2018 5:02:00 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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He will replace the Jets with neo Nazi skinheads and the Sharks with Dreamers.


17 posted on 01/25/2018 5:02:55 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Bryanw92

Let me guess: a gay couple held apart by the conservative, white family on one side and the illegal immigrant family on the other.”

By definition, Puerto Ricans are not “immigrants,” per se, because Puerto Rico is a US possession. ;-)


18 posted on 01/25/2018 5:04:04 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Note to all foreigners: Please.....GET OUT and STAY OUT!)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I don’t like the heavy fake-sounding Puerto Rican accents used in the old West Side Story movie. Don’t think its needed and it distracts. No one is using a Vietnamese accent (thank God) in Miss Saigon productions, or French accents in Les Mis.


19 posted on 01/25/2018 5:04:20 PM PST by Dagnabitt
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To: Captain Peter Blood

“I want to live in America....quiero vivir en America”

I’ve heard enough of that crap. It’s time to deport.


20 posted on 01/25/2018 5:04:46 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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