Mary Poppins...the remake

[HereComes30]

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/news/article335473.ece

Apparently Spielberg is thinking about making a new edition of Mary Poppins.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!! LEAVE THE CLASSICS ALONE!!

Does anyone else think this is bonkers? Are movie makers that desperate for plots these days?

[shaken25]

Remakes always have huge opening weekends before everyone has a handle on what the movie is really like.

[Kitty]

I hope not. How could the original be improved?

So true.

extraletters.

[wordsmith]

I personally am cool with remakes. It must be the onetime theatre major in me...plays are supposed to be interpreted by various groups of performers, half the fun is seeing somebody else's take on a script. That said, you couldn't pay me enough to be the person who attempts to walk in Julie Andrews' shoes. Or under her umbrella, as it were.

[K-man]

Maybe they'll cast Jessica Simpson for the lead role...

[Heroic1]

I always naysay remakes, but virtually all of the movies I saw in 2005 were remakes or fantasy versions of classic novels (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Chronicles of Narnia; King Kong; Harry Potter...etc). and I loved most of them.

But still. Mary Poppins? I predict the kids will be annoying and too out of control, any music will pale in comparison to the original and either be too corny or just obnoxious, and no leading lady will be as charming as Julie Andrews.

Whereas I wanted to see the 2005 remake of C&CF, I just don't have an interest in a modern day "reimagining" of Mary Poppins.

[wordsmith]

It's already been a stage show, this would be a film version of that stage show, and that's done quite well.

[chicagogirl]

*shakes head* Hollywood really is out of ideas. They just keep remaking old movies. And yeah, there's no way this could be done better. It's like people who try to remake Hitchcock movies. *sighs*

[coll214]

Just seems wrong to me... I have seen remakes in the past that are just as good, if not better; Little Women being one example, but Mary Poppins? The original is just too well known, and loved. What next, the Wizard of Oz?

[wordsmith]

I was thinking of Little Women, which has been reimagined NUMEROUS times. There are lots of things that have been remade, and even when they're not as good as the originals as a whole, I still think it's interesting to see the different takes. I'm always intrigued by remakes, even if they suck. It's interesting to see the different choices, interpretations, etc.

[jrwilheim]

I was thinking of Little Women, which has been reimagined NUMEROUS times. There are lots of things that have been remade, and even when they're not as good as the originals as a whole, I still think it's interesting to see the different takes. I'm always intrigued by remakes, even if they suck. It's interesting to see the different choices, interpretations, etc.

Yeah...I think Little Women is probably easier to remake because there's no one "definitive" Little Women the way there is one definitive Mary Poppins. Personally, I have mixed feelings about remakes. Some strike me as just plain pointless (did we really need a shot-for-shot remake of Psycho or Ocean's Eleven?) but others are stories that clearly deserve to be rethought and re-imagined in different generations. If memory serves, wasn't Mary Poppins a book first? If so, I'm sure Disney left out some things in its movie, and it would be interesting to see what gets included and what doesn't in a remake.

[wordsmith]

But I bet everybody who's filmed Little Women thought theirs was definitive. Y'know?