Ah, yes, as to RAM, I’d forgotten that - but it didn’t have all the espionage/urgency of the original. Didn’t see the Futurama one.
In a preface, Steinbeck says that he wrote it so that it could be easily adapted to film, but I note that all the film and TV adaptations had screenplays by someone else. Steinbeck himself wrote a stage version, which was produced as written.
There’s also a radio play, written by someone else.
I’ve listened to it as an audiobook, which is, of course, completely faithful, since it’s Steinbeck’s own words from the book.
I kind of wonder if they could remake “Kelly’s Heroes” and set it in Afghanistan somehow. If they cast it right, it could be a whole lot of fun.
Could the classic movie “Casablanca” be redone?
The movie is great because of the intense story and the acting of Humprey Bogart and Ingred Bergman (and several others) plus the WW2 backdrop like the bar singing “La Marseiles” and the great lines like “Here’s looking at you kid” and “We’ll always have Paris”.
Could it?
They have tried. Twice. Caboblanco, starring Charles Bronson, and Havana, starring Robert Redford.
The tries were extremely unsuccessful.
Barb Wire (1996) is another Casablanca remake that was less than successful.
Save that for the “Classic films they should never remake” thread…
Casablanca, The Goonies, Galaxy Quest, The Big Lebowski… and of course The Princess Bride.
I always thought Three Kings with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg was a bit of a re-do of Kelly’s Heroes. Not as good, or as fun, but same kind of plot.
They made it into a TV show in the ‘80s too, starring David “Hutch” Soul as Rick Blaine. It was as terrible as you would imagine it would be, and lasted five episodes.
The Tv series was quite good.
More or a parody, methinks.
I just tried to watch the “sequel” to The Big Lebowski- turned it off after 15 minutes. Horrible hateful people. “ The Jesus Rolls .”
Perhaps my memory is fuzzy.
One of Rick’s classic lines in the film was “I stick my neck out for no one.”
And he really meant that - until Ilsa walked into his gin joint, which was what made the ensuing events so extraordinary.
I recall TV Rick repeatedly asserting “I stick my neck out for no one,” and then proceeding to stick his neck out for everyone, to the point of ridiculousness.
I wonder if the show is available to view anywhere? It might be interesting to revisit it and see if it’s what I remember.
I was talking about the Highlander TV series.
Whoops, sorry. Missed the little reply arrow on your post.
Them adding in the refugees plot in Three Kings was completely counter to the point of Kelly’s Heroes in my book, since the entire point of it was that it was just a heist movie and nobody really had a connection to the war at large. If Kelly and his crew had to save a bunch of Jewish concentration camp victims at the end, that would have really hurt the overall irrelevant tone of the movie.
There was also a 1955 TV series Casablanca, ostensibly based on the original play Everybody Goes to Rick’s
http://www.vincasa.com/indextvseries.html
I think I’ve got an episode on my deluxe DVD of Casablanca.
Oh another one is Starship Troopers. While I thoroughly approve of Verhoven satirizing the facisty undertones in Heinlein’s novel, it should be possible to do that without turning it into an episode of Beverly Hills 90210.
Eso given the current political climate I think another version is overdue.
Yeah, I considered “Three Kings”, but the whole part with the refugees changes the film dramatically. Enough so, that I wouldn’t consider it a remake.
I think “Starship Troopers” would be a good one to remake. Maybe not “remake” exactly, but re-adapt. I think rather than a satire of fascism that had very little to do with the actual book events, characters or philosophical commentary, the re-adaptation should be made as faithful as possible to the book. There’s a lot of room to delve into the nature of violence and the nature of citizenship as described in the book, without making it satire or absurd.
Yes, and ya gotta have powered body armor (hired the Iron Man sfx team to do it right), and the talking ten-second bombs. Ya gotta!