Travolta & Cruise to butcher Butch Cassidy & TSDK!

[jangler3]

http://www.popcrunch.com/john-travolta-tom-cruise-butch-cassidy-the-sundance-kid-remake/

Tom Cruise will reportedly team up with pal John Travolta in a remake of the 1960s western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

The surrogate father of Scientology plans to produce the remake through his United Artists Studio and is currently in talks with scriptwriters, a new report claims.

A source tells The Daily Mirror: “Butch and Sundance is a labor of love for Tom. He was eight years old when he saw the original and it made an impression that has stayed with him all his life. He can’t wait to get to work.”

Tom hopes to revive the role of Sundance–played by Robert Redford in the original film–while 55-year-old John is expected to play Cassidy.

The 46-year-old star even got the blessing of Paul Newman - who originally played the role of Cassidy in the film about a pair of lovable bank robbers–before he died of lung cancer last September, tattles tell the tab.
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This might be the worst idea since....well shit I can't think of a worst idea than this!

[firefan]

Why is it that we enjoy and love a great movie- then some wanker in Hollywood decides to re-make it, and totally fuck it up?

Has Hollywood run completely out of new ideas?

They do the same when there is a hit French film as well.

For example. The Pink Panther. Who the fuck came up with the idea that Steve Martin could be even remotely close to being as funny as Peter Sellers?

[jangler3]

Steve Martin did, duh! I didn't see either movie cuz I knew.

And yes, Hollywood has run out of ideas.

Just look at the new Star Trek movie. Instead of going into the future and telling a whole new story. No! Lets go into the past of ST history and retell it. And change it, now that Gene is dead I can whatever the fuck I want to, I'm Rick Berman bitch!



P.S. Rick Berman is in control of the Star Trek Universe since Gene Roddenberry died.

[DTravel]

The Zetans have spoken! All your Hollyweird is ours!

[atwood]

Why can't they just leave the classics alone. Geez just saw the trailer for "Taking Pelham 1-2-3" my god, who had the bright idea of putting that f*cking turd Travolta in the film ?

[Xxphd]

Hmm..I'm disgusted too, but at least who would be better candidates for the Cassidy & Sundance parts?



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[jangler3]

Matthew McConaughey and Brad Pitt

[Xxphd]

the original movie was kind of a tongue in cheek story and a socalled "buddy movie" When you want to create the same conditions and atmosphere again, you'll need a couple of actors who have a natural on screen chemistry (believable friends!) and, importantly, with who you can symphatize...

[9876543210]

the original movie was kind of a tongue in cheek story and a socalled "buddy movie" When you want to create the same conditions and atmosphere again, you'll need a couple of actors who have a natural on screen chemistry (believable friends!) and, importantly, with who you can symphatize...

Well then, how about Clooney and Pitt? They seem to work together pretty well and often enough.

I'll have to agree with the rest. It'll be awfully hard to make a better movie than the original. Its one of my fav's.

[Sam Spade]

Hmm..I'm disgusted too, but at least who would be better candidates for the Cassidy & Sundance parts?

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How about Paul Newman and Robert Redford?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Cruise is so arrogant, why can't he leave the film alone, bloody short arse. :mad:

[billybunter]

You just can't tamper with these gems. For fucks sake leave them alone hollywood!

[imtrying]

YIKES!!! This sounds like a horrible idea. The one good thing is that whenever there's a re-make, it rekindles interest in the original. So I guess I'll get out the two disc special edition of the Newman-Redford classic and ignore what I'm sure will be the worst film of whatever year it's released.

[thyguy]

Cruise and Travolta seriously thinking of remaking Newman and Redford???

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!! Oh that's a good one!

[anklebiter]

Cruise-can't stand the dude....love his movies
Travolta- needs to stay away from my Miley....love his movies

I'm going to try to separate their religion and related views (which I think are borderline criminally insane) with their acting ability.These dudes make great flicks.I'll sit back and be entertained for two hours.Looking forward to the stress relief.

[Clarisworkz]

you'll need a couple of actors who have a natural on screen chemistry (believable friends!) and, importantly, with who you can symphatize...

Exactly ... case in point ... Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in the Lethal Weapon Quadrilogy. The repartee between Riggs and Murtaugh was ceaseless, and always worked.

That said, this pairing of Crooze and Revolta may work (if they can keep the scientology out of it). But it's not just chemistry that's needed. The Director has make the film work as well. Unless Crooze directs it, and then it'll be Butch and Sundance - The search for Xenu.

:D

[Wendigo]

Unless Crooze directs it, and then it'll be Butch and Sundance - The search for Xenu.:D

Why not Eli Roth? Mind you he'll probably make it as Butch, Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and film it as a Hostel version of Brokeback Mountain. He'd look for 3 leads as our friendly cowpokes hunt for killers who have kidnapped their adopted child.
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Re Xenu - love this
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[MaxJoker]

At least it`ll be great to see how the director copes with the wee fellows vertical disadvantage , never more so when the two leads ride into town and go tie up their mounts. Guess digital effects will be used throughout ,because if it was filmed in a realistic style their arrival would surely look something like this

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Plus hey it`s not all bad as at least this remake`s ending won`t make the audience feel quite so somber and regretful as the originals , might actually get them up on their feet cheering as personally speaking i can`t wait to see Cruise get blasted :cool:

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Tom ? ,why he's so mean that dwarf`d steal a fly from a blind spider

[scoundrel]

Hmm..I'm disgusted too, but at least who would be better candidates for the Cassidy & Sundance parts?



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Robert Redford and Paul Newman! Hold a bloody seance if necessary.

[Xxphd]

Not much alternative names popping up sofar..

Woody Harrelson and Jim Carrey?

that'll be a hoot..

:D

[tabler]

I always thought Pete Dual and Ben Murphy were Likable imatations in Alias Smith and Jones, however the fact that Pete Dual is dead could prove a hinderance:p

[Xxphd]

I always thought Pete Dual and Ben Murphy were Likable imatations in Alias Smith and Jones, however the fact that Pete Dual is dead could prove a hinderance:p

There's also the fact that Murphy is way too old.. well perhaps he can do a cameo..
;)

[snorkie]

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This might be the worst idea since....well shit I can't think of a worst idea than this!

Let me help: The worst idea since "The Day The Earth Stood Still." So, bad the advertising selling point for the DVD is that it includes the original classic. :(

[scoundrel]

Cruise-can't stand the dude....love his movies
Travolta- needs to stay away from my Miley....love his movies

I'm going to try to separate their religion and related views (which I think are borderline criminally insane) with their acting ability.These dudes make great flicks.I'll sit back and be entertained for two hours.Looking forward to the stress relief.

Just for separating from Nicole Kidman Tom Cruise is a candidate for the funny farm. He has made a few excellent flicks off and on. I liked:

Jerry Maguire
The Last Samurai
A Few Good Men

But my list of Cruise films which make me want to feed him to the pirannha fish is far too long to put here. I have a strong premonition that another one is trundling down the track. I can envisage Cruise or Travolta as a really second rate Butch Cassidy. Either of them as the Sundance Kid is just too bizarre.

It is not any cheaper to produce a cast iron guaranteed Turkey of a remake as it is to produce an original film with a strong storyline, sympathetic characters played by actors of real calibre and with some genuine artistic merit. There has to be a reason why they would sink to this, other than mere stupidity. Lord alone knows what though.

[blatt]

Dumb question maybe but did the film fall through ?. Hope it did because i wouldnt want to watch this so not needed remake if they paid me.What is it with these samey remakes anyway. Latest is the a team . What a waste of time and money dont even care if its good or not i just cant be bothered about going to see such a rehashed old story. Where are the new ideas back in the day there was at least two thirds as many new films as remakes but today the whole thing has reversed. Cinema is becoming boring and im not happy about it :mad:

[DTravel]

Movies can take years from when they are "announced" to even get fully cast, let along actually start filming. Ask again in, oh, about four or five years. We might know by then. :D

[dohupa]

......Cinema is becoming boring and im not happy about it :mad:
Well... script writing that has originality most of all, structure etc that can actually surprise us - is a rare animal so to speak. Not easy at all - hence the easy way out doing remakes and adaptions of comic books. :(

[jangler3]

Steve Martin did, duh! I didn't see either movie cuz I knew.

And yes, Hollywood has run out of ideas.

Just look at the new Star Trek movie. Instead of going into the future and telling a whole new story. No! Lets go into the past of ST history and retell it. And change it, now that Gene is dead I can whatever the fuck I want to, I'm Rick Berman bitch!



P.S. Rick Berman is in control of the Star Trek Universe since Gene Roddenberry died.

I must take this back, They did a good job, Just hope they can keep it up.

[Mal Hombre]

How about Paul Newman and Robert Redford?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Cruise is so arrogant, why can't he leave the film alone, bloody short arse. :mad:
There might be a slight problem with signing Newman up again:D

[DTravel]

Well... script writing that has originality most of all, structure etc that can actually surprise us - is a rare animal so to speak. Not easy at all - hence the easy way out doing remakes and adaptions of comic books. :(

I suspect the problem isn't getting good original scripts, its keeping them good after the studio has ordered three re-writes (one for the studio head's politics and then two more because each new studio head has to piddle on their predecessor's work 'cause they're the boss now!) and the director orders two more and then shoots something entirely different anyways because he has an "artistic vision" that he just has to indulge regardless of the fact it has nothing to do with what he was hired to film. :rolleyes:

[DTravel]

There might be a slight problem with signing Newman up again:D

Three letters: C, G and I. :p

[Jasper Lamar Crabb]

Awful idea, of course. Will probably be utter crap.

But still, I hope they get Paul Giamatti to play "Woodcock!"

[Mal Hombre]

The only real surprise is that they took so long to think of it.

[squigg58]

A source tells The Daily Mirror: “Butch and Sundance is a labor of love for Tom. He was eight years old when he saw the original and it made an impression that has stayed with him all his life. He can’t wait to get to work.”

Shame the impression it made on him wasn't along the lines of ... "Bloody hell! That was good film. You'd have to be a sad, egotistical half-wit to ever think you could improve it!"

[DTravel]

Shame the impression it made on him wasn't along the lines of ... "Bloody hell! That was good film. You'd have to be a sad, egotistical half-wit to ever think you could improve it!"

You're expecting modesty and rationality from this guy? The one who believes in aliens have been mind-controlling humans for a billion or two years? http://i28.*******.com/24xfgw9.gif

[otiscleotus]

I saw a trailer for a remake of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? called Whatever Happened To Baby Ed? (lol, it's a put on). It's on youtube still.

Hollywood has pretty much gotten to be so inbred and isolated that it has no idea of the surrounding world other than itself and Las Vegas. That's pretty much the kiss of death for originality.

[echobravo]

Good God Hollywood! Another damn remake! What do you want to bet that they try to do as they say in Hollywood "a gritty reboot?" Then they will cry about how no one went to see it. Even a lot of the so-called original films have so much of their plot shamelessly ripped off of older great movies. Guess this is what happens when you spend 2/3 of the budget on the salaries of "the talent." Not much room after that to pay the writers.
Hollywood has gotten to big and flooded with ego to make great movies anymore. From the directors down it is nothing but a big circle jerk.

[Night Haunter]

They just can't help themselves - Hollywood that is, they have to meddle with classics, why on earth would anyone want to make a remake of one of the greatest westerns ever made and why would anyone want to star in it.
Cruise and Travolta are totally unsuited for the title roles:confused:, neither of them has charisma, charm and an all commanding screen presence, I sincerely hope Robert Redford puts curse on the pair of them for such blasphemy.:mad:

What next The Magnificent Seven or The Searchers and I dread to think of anyone ever trying to emulate Eastwood as the Man with No Name.:eek:

Hollywood, be told, leave well alone.

[Brettro]

Because the original film ended with a freeze frame they probably think this gives them licence to give the movie a happy ending where they triumph over the army and live happily ever after. Perhaps Cruize will finally admit his sexuality and incorparate a bit of Brokeback Mountain action between BC & TSDK.

[rlg118]

I think those two should work on a remake of Dumb and Dumber.

[Night Haunter]

Because the original film ended with a freeze frame they probably think this gives them licence to give the movie a happy ending where they triumph over the army and live happily ever after. Perhaps Cruize will finally admit his sexuality and incorparate a bit of Brokeback Mountain action between BC & TSDK.

I Sincerely hope not, Newman and Redford were/are ladies men, to think of the timeless characters they played being of a different sexuality is totally absurd :eek:, but for Cruise and Travolta to change the ending I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest :mad: - the reason this movie will fail is because Newman and Redford were personal friends and bounced off each other brilliantly (they did it again in The Sting) sadly Tom and John, even though they are friends will bounce off each other like lead balloons.;)

[TripleM]

Those roles should go to two talented stars who are in their prime like Redford and Newman were. Not two Scientologists, one known for jumping on couches and making stupid statements and the other.....well, Vinnie Barbarino just aint right for any western at all. Knowing the way Hollywood works these days and its contempt for making serious westerns, they'll turn it into a comedy or something gimmicky like they did Jonah Hex.

[otiscleotus]

Cruise should ditch Travolta and the BC&TSK project and get together with Mel Gibson for a remake of Sunset Blvd. or the aforementioned Whatever Happened To Baby Jane. With these two involved either would be even closer to reality than (or then?, my brain can't get it right tonight) the originals were.

[Nylon]

Utterly pointless irrespective of who is in it.
The original is still a great movie ...

[BigDog44]

Oh dear.... who cares to bet that at the end they ride off into the sunset on harleys as the hut explodes into an inferno killing all the mexicans.

Classics should be left alone, just because the film studios can throw a heap of cash and special effects at a movies doesn't mean they should. Can anyone name a remake or for that matter a sequel that was better than the original?

[theequestrian]

The American film industry is as original as a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox. (This is not to be confused with the American TV industry, which is the result of what happens when the Xerox gets Mimeographed)
The Schlockmeisters in Hollywood stopped trying to keep up the pretense of quality long ago.
The ONLY important thing in Hollywood is weekend grosses. If they thought they could turn a dime on the project, the troglodytes would see no problem whatsoever in green-lighting a remake of 'Casablanca'. In fact, if the profit projections looked good enough they'd have no problem green-lighting 'Casablanca' and promoting it as 'The finest bald-black-hasidic-lesbian-biker-musical-comedy ever made'

[Mal Hombre]

Oh dear.... who cares to bet that at the end they ride off into the sunset on harleys as the hut explodes into an inferno killing all the mexicans.

Classics should be left alone, just because the film studios can throw a heap of cash and special effects at a movies doesn't mean they should. Can anyone name a remake or for that matter a sequel that was better than the original?
Bolivians actually

[welderman]

i could see the travolta thing happening, but surely not the little guy...

[lorneould]

http://www.popcrunch.com/john-travolta-tom-cruise-butch-cassidy-the-sundance-kid-remake/

Tom Cruise will reportedly team up with pal John Travolta in a remake of the 1960s western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

The surrogate father of Scientology plans to produce the remake through his United Artists Studio and is currently in talks with scriptwriters, a new report claims.

A source tells The Daily Mirror: “Butch and Sundance is a labor of love for Tom. He was eight years old when he saw the original and it made an impression that has stayed with him all his life. He can’t wait to get to work.”

Tom hopes to revive the role of Sundance–played by Robert Redford in the original film–while 55-year-old John is expected to play Cassidy.

The 46-year-old star even got the blessing of Paul Newman - who originally played the role of Cassidy in the film about a pair of lovable bank robbers–before he died of lung cancer last September, tattles tell the tab.
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This might be the worst idea since....well shit I can't think of a worst idea than this!

I thought The "Tom Hanks"Butch "Brad Pitt"Sundance was a much better team, Director David Fincher.

[elf4736]

I wish he would remake The Devils and play the part of Oliver Reed. To see Tom Cruise tortured
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Tom Cruise is reportedly teaming up with pal John Travolta to remake the 1960s classic western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. WHY THATS HIERARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!

[MayfairFan]

Classics should be left alone, just because the film studios can throw a heap of cash and special effects at a movies doesn't mean they should. Can anyone name a remake or for that matter a sequel that was better than the original?I can't think of a remake better than the original, but there are at least a couple of sequels that might be, or at least come close...

Addams Family Values
Men In Black II

OK, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel a bit here perhaps, but actually I enjoyed both (all four, in fact) of those. And you could argue that the James Bond series is one long run of sequels... or remakes :).


But the Butch Cassidy idea... if you really must, for no sane reason known to anyone with any taste or judgement, make a totally unnecessary and guaranteed lower quality reprise of one of the greatest films ever, then at least cast George Clooney and Brad Pitt. They're not going to improve on Newman and Redford but they might be OK... the problem would be that no matter how good they were, you'd always be thinking of the original and so if they have any sense they'd never take the job.

I don't even totally dislike Cruise (he's great in Collateral and Magnolia, and pretty good in Interview With The Vampire, at least) or Travolta (Get Shorty is brilliant, and there are a couple of others - I quite like Broken Arrow for some reason)... but they are not, repeat not, suitable to play Butch and Sundance, either way round.

[navvet]

This is a perfect example of why I hate remakes.

[Lurk_D]

Wow. This thread started two years ago, and even though nothing has seemed to come of it people are still up in arms about it.

As I see it, at least they're thinking of remaking the classic original and not the prequel that starred Tom Berenger and William Katt. While it was a good film, and a clever idea, it was no classic.

[steamjon]

I think the horse has bolted on this one and Travolta is a little bit too old now.

[Jack Keroact]

Butch Cassidy and the Assdance Kid

Who's the butch one?