Why?
The Heller estate must be hard up for money.
More won’t see TV.
Oh yeah. This will be about as good as every other “woke” TV program and movie. Why don’t they just put a Wymyns Stydies professor on TV for three hours lecturing the audience on how evil the penis is and how all men should be killed?
It is a story about men in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
There will, by necessity, be very few women in the story, because there were very few women at forward operating bases of the Army Air Corps in World War II.
Those women who were there were likely viewed by the young men in the Army Air Corp as young men in the military typically view women. If you want to tell a story, you have to tell the story that happened. If you try to insert 2019 sensibility into a 1943 story, it will not work.
2019 sexual politics is tedious enough. No need to export it to the past. One of the nice things about reading a story from 50 years ago is that you don’t have to wade through all of the modern claptrap. That is why my bookshelf does not have anything published after 1990.
Catch-22 meets PC. Epic failure results.
George who?
Will Clooney be using a casting couch?
The book was good, the movie not so much.
Is the ‘only’ originality these days taking an old classic and modernizing it?
Doesn’t anyone have any ‘new ideas’?
Also with ads anymore, if one company comes up with a ‘STUPID talking animal’, once it is ‘successful’ the others come up with a different talking animal and we end up with the same lame commercial plagiarized several times over with the one ‘robber’ saying - you used a gecko, I used a rabbit and that is different.
It is ‘hard’ to convert most books into movies but ‘Catch 22’ is/was darn near impossible, to many plot changes, character changes etc and far too much to cram into a 2 hour or so movie...
Catch 22 was one of the best books of the 20th century.
It was also one of the funniest movies IMHO with an incredible cast of characters. Orson Wells, Bob Newhart, Alan Arkin, Buck Henry, Anthony Perkins, Martin Scheen, Norman Fell, Charles Grodin, Paula Prentise and Jon Voight.
Why would you want to do a remake? Of course, they made a remake of True Grit...
There’s nothing this jerk can put on tv or the screen that I’ll watch. Even his stupid commercial where he runs around in a knight’s costume is reason to change the channel.
Clooney is a very old looking 57 year old.
He has not aged well. He needs to be airbrushed in his photos and films.
Modern “entertainment” desperately needs another preachy, condescending piece of garbage. I’ll be sure to check this one out.
Catch-22 is one of my all-time favorites.
You couldn’t pay me to watch what this putz does to bastardize Heller’s masterpiece.