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.
Is there nothing scared???
Hahah, you funny.
Everybody sing...When you’re a Crip you’re a Crip to the
end from your first hit on crack to your last dying day...
Are they going to also make sure that ALL of the other gang's members are ITALIAN?
And since the original was a 1950s sort of version of ROMEO & JULIET, so much of the original Broadway play ( which was translated to the screen! ) is obsolete, I guess that this POS shall be rewritten and done badly.
Guns for the switch blades?
What to do about the sweat shop the girls work at?
Cops no longer do foot patrols, so jettison the "OFFICER KRUMPKY" song?
Rita Moreno IS a Puerto Rican, but she was a GREAT actress, singer, and dancer! Nobody, even remotely, today, can compare with her.
They have to "speak Spanish"?
WHY?
WEST SIDE STORY is a play written in English!
How embarrassing.
There is no talent around to remake this.
I never liked this movie....actually never made it through and I suppose I tried a few times over the years. So boring. I would imagine they could do a good job with it if they update it some.
As far as redoing originals, it is certainly an epidemic. Murphy Brown is being remade now. Good grief that was a fantastic show for the first 5 years or so. Oh well I can’t believe Bergman would want to do it after having a stroke. We’ll see how it is.
Will and Grace regardless of our distaste of the show has been relatively successful and was awarded a renewal for 2018-2019 season.
Rosanne will be a big premier but how will it do for next episode is a question. The problem with Rosanne is that liberals now hate her for supporting Trump and Conservatives although appreciate the support for Trump think she’s a bit to liberal in social issues so this will be interesting how it survives. Plus it is beginning right in time for Daylight Savings which ALWAYS affects the 8 o’clock hour so we will have to see. The show is going to “The Middle’s” spot after it finishes so that may help.
Will everyone have AIDS?
i will predict major bomb for this right now.
Another one of those self acclaimed “creative geniuses” copying someone else’s creative genius.
the original is excellent, does not require a remake
The only way I could buy a modern day West Side Story is if one family is liberal and the other is conservative. That would be kinda fun.
“I remember the original and cannot fathom what will be the end product after a PC Liberal Hollywood gets through with it.”
This time the Natalie Wood character will be “gender fluid”.
And Muslim.
I cannot imagine the remake being better than the original. It will make money off the reputation of the real show, so long as it’s not terrible, and if they don’t spend too much making it. But I won’t bother watching.
How exciting! A transgender Maria! I can’t wait! </sarcasm>
It'll be the Crips/Bloods vs MS-13 for control of the drugs/prostitution in the ghettos/barrios of LA.
Maria will fall in love with the Crips/Blood leader who is secretly gay and she is the sister of the MS-13 leader.
What did I miss?
What’s next? Gone With the Wind? Casablanca? Citizen Kane? Hitchcock movies?
Info on the lead roles:
“The casting call notes that all four of the lead actors must be able to speak Spanish. A production date has not been set.”
It’s official: I couldn’t possibly care less.
Well I guess he needs another Oscar.
Ed
“West Side Story” does not remaking. The original was perfect, anything else will be a pale comparison. If they remake it I would suspect a social political plot. It would be horrible.
The original is my favorite John Astin movie.