The Net has been abuzz with the news that Johnny Depp will star in an upcoming remake of The Thin Man. The classic Golden Age detective rom-com, released in 1934 and Oscar-nominated, was about a married couple, Nick and Nora Charles, who solve a murder in between boozing it up and flirting with each other.
Rob Marshall, who makes mostly terribly movies — Nine, Memoirs of a Geisha, though also Chicago — will be directing. He and Depp just worked together on the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Now, CinemaBlend is reporting that Rachel Weisz is under consideration for the role of Nora.
I love Depp and Weisz, and I bet they’d be fantastic together. But is there any reason to remake a classic? Is there any hope in hell it could possibly be better than the original? Why bother to make such a movie at all… except that Hollywood is unashamed of its creative bankruptcy?
Johnny Depp and Rachel Weisz in Rob Marshall’s The Thin Man: good idea or the death of film?
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