It’s Official: Steven Spielberg is Remaking “West Side Story,”

Showbiz 411 ^ | 01-25-2018 | Roger Friedman

[minnesota_bound]

Spielberg should remake “Jaws”.

[husky ed]

Who cares?

Well I guess he needs another Oscar.

Ed

[NCC-1701]

The remake of “The Flight of the Phoenix” was pretty good.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Two gay transexual gangs fight it out over who does what to whom!?

[cpdiii]

“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.

[a fool in paradise]

>>By cops in NYC? That does NOT work, isn’t in the original play, and would be stupid!

The whole idea of this remake is stupid

[a fool in paradise]

It’s gonna be another Flintstones - The Movie.

[clearcarbon]

The original is my favorite John Astin movie.

[a fool in paradise]

Steven Spielberg will have a cult movie success on his hands (after the initial failure at the boxoffice).

Think of the call and response, jeers, and jokes the audience will be able to taunt the screen with.

[nopardons]

Yes it is; beyond STUPID, senseless.

[Yaelle]

Just make sure everyone is of age if Spielberg is involved.

[a fool in paradise]

They already remade Psycho and even have made numerous sequels to it (before the remake).

[a fool in paradise]

So the white roles will go to Hispanics too?

Or are the fighting families/gangs both Hispanic this time around?

[nopardons]

No...it's a complete loser of an idea! Perhaps he needs a write off for tax purposes, or he's just an idiot.

People who know the original won't go.

Movie musicals haven't been a draw in decades and that abomination, LA LA Whatever, was a sgtinker's stinker and unwatchable.

Millennials won't go.

So who "might" go.."Hispanics" ?

Mexicans hate the Puerto Ricans, as do the Cubans, and the Central Americans have less than NO attachment to the PRs, let alone this kind of movie.

Oh it'll get an Oscar, but that no longer really carries any weight, since it's just a joke award now.

[a fool in paradise]

I watched Gentle Ben as a youth and later saw Clint Howard in Rock And Roll High School.

[a fool in paradise]

And Jetsons was an update of Blondie (Jane Jetson was even voiced by the actress who’d played Blondie from the comic strips).

And Top Cat was based on Sgt. Bilko and Scooby-Doo was based upon Dobey Gillis.

[a fool in paradise]

He should just make a new sequel to Jaws.

[nopardons]

True...

Sometimes it really works; but there is absolutely NO talent, anywhere, today, so it doesn't!

And the last remake of WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD/A STAR IS BORN, with Streisand, was a horror; this next one ( I forget who is doing the "start turn, but DO remember that it's untalented nothing ) shall be even worse.

[Political Junkie Too]

Clint Howard on Star Trek.

-PJ

[Vendome]

LOL