[goldendelicious]

The new version for Julie Christie's character is-- another female. I was worried. It's the Iranian girl from Star trek, Beyond:

The director for the new show is also Iranian. I guess she was a shoe-in.

[Dalberg-Acton]

[alexander_busek]

I guess she was a shoe-in.

That's "shoo-in."

Regards,

[VietVet]

The first film version was made overseas, with a foreign director and cast, and rather missed the point of the book. The director pictured and depicted the “firemen” as Nazi SS/Gestapo thugs; left out the robots; and almost missed the nuclear war at the end. In the book, to be sure, most of the characters don't see the war coming, largely because of government censorship; not all books are banned, just a list of a million, which are considered ‘subversive’ or sympathetic to the un-named, unseen enemies; and the firemen are rather cliche-ed American low level civil servants (think Broward Co. Sheriff's Deputies). It looks like the producers are making similar mistakes in this remake: foreign director and cast members, foreign interpretation of an American story.