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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Those people are faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar too OLD!
The Coen Brothers have written some good stuff, as has M. Night Shyamalan, Cameron Crowe, David Franzoni, etc.
i will predict major bomb for this right now.
GENIUS!!!
Another one of those self acclaimed “creative geniuses” copying someone else’s creative genius.
How about an all white Porgy and Bess?
Oh, I can see it now, Aryan girl falls for Black
Militant, love leads to slaughter as Nazis battle
to oppress minorities.
the original is excellent, does not require a remake
The problem with Rosanne is she can’t act.
Kind of like the Mermaids in wheel chairs Bette Midler did.
Oh my gosh you are correct.
Good point.
...and the backdrop could be a dunkin donuts...
Good point. Holy cow....that is very true. Heck Jennifer is going to be 50 in 2019 when this thing will be finished. Thanks for pointing that out.
All of his movies are basically the same and not in a good way; I'm not talking about the genre ( of which he sticks to ), it's everything.
I've only seen a few of the Coen brother's movies and am NOT impressed by their work at all.
And I have no idea who the other two, you mentioned are;. let alone what they's done.
Ma’riah I just met a girl named Ma’riah She was only 10, the prophet would prove, of me, uh.
No...it’s be far worse than that; not to mention unwatchable in the extreme.
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.
Ma’riah I just met a girl named Ma’riah She was only 10, the prophet would approve, of me, uh.
“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.
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