Film
- Sam Lavender to become head of development at Film4
- Matt Damon, Josh Brolin to star in True Grit remake?
- Ron Livingston joins cast of Dinner for Schmucks
- Keira Knightley to star in My Fair Lady remake
- Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire to star in The Third Man remake
Theater
- Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson to star in A View From the Bridge
British TV
- BBC to cut Scottish radio stations to make room for Freeview Gaelic channel?
- Yet, BBC to auction off under-used Freeview streams
- Peep Show goes out with 1.41m viewers
US TV
- Microsoft pulls out of Family Guy sponsorship
- James Van Der Beek to guest on The Forgotten
- White Collar starts with 5.4m viewers
- George Clooney's Elvis-impersonating cop show Delta Blues gets greenlight from TNT
- Sherri Saum to recur on Gossip Girl
- Elizabeth Banks and Chazz Palminteri to guest on Modern Family
- Promos for season eight of 24
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October 27, 2009 | Reply
I'm not usually a big fan of remakes, but I feel a lot better about 'True Grit' in the Coen Brothers hands than I do about attempting to re-do 'The Third Man'.
There was a... heft to the roles played by Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton in the original. Maguire and Decaprio have some great roles between them, but they still come off as lightweights whem measured up to those roles.
As for 'True Grit', I like the casting ideas and I hope they can pull it off. It's just a shame there doesn't seem to be character actors like Jeff Corey around anymore to take on the killer's role. Even the villians have to be marquee quality nowadays.....