Another Another Round (???, 202X)

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Pavel
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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#2 Post by Pavel » Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:18 pm

I thought remaking recent European films in English had died after a couple of canceled projects, but apparently not

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#3 Post by willoneill » Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:22 pm

Most of the ones that have been announced have died before coming to fruition (I'm looking at you, Ron Howard's Cache), so with this, as with all film announcements, I refuse to believe it until I see a trailer.

I'm not Scandinavian, or even European, so I can't quite explain this in words, but I thought someone might consider a remake after I first saw this last Fall, and yet there was something about the film and the culture in which they live that made me think this wouldn't translate to America well. Maybe there's still a more puritan undercurrent to alcohol in the U.S. than in Europe, I don't know.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#4 Post by Pavel » Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:28 pm

willoneill wrote:
Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:22 pm
Ron Howard's Cache
I had no idea about this and I'm pretty shocked since Howard is literally the worst possible choice for Cache, except maybe F. Gary Gray

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#5 Post by Brian C » Mon Apr 26, 2021 9:26 pm

I’d much rather see F. Gary Gray’s version.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#6 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:26 pm

I could see Another Round working better as a film if some elements were tweaked so I'm not entirely opposed to a remake on principle, but it's such a risky idea that could also go so wrong.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#7 Post by willoneill » Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:42 pm

An idea that I think is great but won't take credit for is to round out the quartet with members of DiCaprio's old pussy posse (Tobey Maguire, Kevin Connolly, Lukas Haas, etc.)

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#8 Post by Matt » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:57 pm

Great idea! It could be an unofficial sequel to Don’s Plum (coincidentally also a Zentropa co-production).

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#9 Post by beamish14 » Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:39 am

Pavel wrote:
Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:18 pm
I thought remaking recent European films in English had died after a couple of canceled projects, but apparently not
Yes, there have been a lot of aborted/stalled ones. I can immediately recall Jodie Foster trying to turn the Icelandic film Woman at War into a vehicle for herself, which seems like a more reasonable proposition than Cache, given that it is not a hugely well-known film associated with a renowned auteur.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#10 Post by knives » Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:43 am

I think you overstate the popularity of Haneke and the film in the states.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#11 Post by beamish14 » Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:50 am

knives wrote:
Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:43 am
I think you overstate the popularity of Haneke and the film in the states.

True. I do think critics automatically would be predisposed to go after Ron Howard (and given his track record, that's understandable as well).

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Re: Another Another Round (???, 202X)

#12 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:16 am

I would seriously struggle to see how a Hollywood remake of Cache would take the Algiera/colonialism theme. Maybe a tone-deaf take on white/African-American tensions?

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#13 Post by aox » Wed Apr 28, 2021 9:13 am

willoneill wrote:
Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:22 pm
and yet there was something about the film and the culture in which they live that made me think this wouldn't translate to America well.
This. Plus, I had already assumed Another Round was actually a Scandinavian remake of the American film Old School anyway.

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Re: Another Another Round (???, 202X)

#14 Post by furbicide » Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:38 pm

Pavel wrote:
Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:18 pm
I thought remaking recent European films in English had died after a couple of canceled projects, but apparently not
On that note, who could forget the proposed Jack Nicholson-starring US remake of Toni Erdmann? Last I heard that project was going ahead without him, but there's been no news for two and a half years, so perhaps we might yet be spared:

https://www.thewrap.com/lisa-cholodenko ... s-co-star/

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