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Miramax to remake HARVEY

It's already been done. by marwood	Apr 6th, 1999 05:22:41 AM
A remake of Harvey was shown on Channel 5 (a god awful TV station in Britain) starring Lelie Nielsen. I didn't bother watching it - what's the point? (PS If it had to be remade, I would choose Nic Cage to paly Elwood P Dowd - he can do the right combination of sweetness, sincerity and insanity).
You just ruined my day. by GodBear	Apr 6th, 1999 06:10:15 AM
How in the name of all that's holy (Like this movie) can these people be serious. You can remake any other movie you want. Remake Planet of the Apes. Remake Gone With the Wind. Remake Ernest Goes to Camp for all I care. Why remake a movie that doesn't need a bit of modernization. It doesn't have any effects. It isn't dated. I'm sorry that ninety percent of the populace thinks that black and white movies are the work of Satan. That is the only reason to remake this movie. Because the original is in black and white. The idea of Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler as Elwood P. Dowd makes me nauseous. Tom Hanks doesn't make me feel much better. Just leave it alone. Put down the remake rights and back away from the table. Me and the Anti-Remake Liberation Army are going to have to put our operations into overdrive in order to put kabong on this latest tragedy. Hey Hollywood, you need ideas? Send me an email. I got hundreds of 'em. Well, I gotta go finish my remake of Dr. Strangelove now. That flawed piece of crap has been needing an overhaul for a while.
HARRY, what ever happened to Miramax/Dimension's RAMBO 4!!! by ABking	Apr 6th, 1999 06:38:16 AM
Harry, did this movie fall apart or is Miramax still making the movie. A simple Yes or No would be nice.
Boo, I say! BOOOOO!!! by Uncle Cracky	Apr 6th, 1999 06:47:12 AM
Poor Jimmy must be turning in his grave. Of all the great movies he was involved with, this one deserves the right to be LEFT ALONE. Harry said it all above. Or, in the immortal words of Mallory Knox: "BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD!!!"
Why Remake good movies...remake crap and make it better!!! by Mr. Zumdish	Apr 6th, 1999 07:26:17 AM
Why is Hollywood, and that includes "outsider" Miramax, constantly remaking GREAT films? They never compare and are usually quite awful (i.e. Meet Joe Black). Do we really need a modern twist on "Harvey"? Do we need to see Elwood get electro-shock therpy? I don't think so. Why doesn't Hollywood start remaking BAD movies that had potential to be GREAT films? My first choice: Bonfire of the Vanties. What a powerful satire on America this film could have been. Get Robert Altman to direct and get Kevin Spacey, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Mira Sorvino to replace Hanks, Willis, and Griffith. I'm interested in seeing what other films AICN posters would like to see remade and who they would get to direct and star in them. Maybe we can decide on one film and lobby Miramax to remake that film instead, eh Harry?. Lets get posting. Until then, this is Zumdish(pops mouth) ...singing off
Son of a....... by JudgeWD	Apr 6th, 1999 07:26:30 AM
Remaking Harvey will be a new LOW for the unoriginality of Hollywood. Psycho was bad enough, as is the upcoming remake of The Haunting. I almost completely agree with Harry, but even Hanks can not to justice to the film. The role is Stewart's. Period. I know Stewart felt this to be one of his favorite roles ever, and to tamper with a movie such as this is a sheer tragedy. May the fleas of 1000 camels infest the armpits of that dorkus Harvey W at Mirimax if they go through with this.
I'm not alone! by Pope Buck 1	Apr 6th, 1999 07:53:32 AM
I'm glad to find out I'm not the only one who felt a cold shudder of fear at hearing this news. All other considerations aside, this movie is about the most LOW-KEY of a comedy as has ever been written -- what in God's name possessed them that they would htink of this as a Jim Carrey or (shudder) Adam Sandler vehicle? That's like remaking "Arsenic and Old Lace" as a John Woo film. I thought Miramax was above this kind of bullshit. If they do it with Tom Hanks, it might be at least watchable. Nic Cage seems like a nice choice too. But if they go for Carrey or (shudder)Sandler, run for the hills, fast!
DWD: YOU HOLLYWOOD IDIOTS NEVER LEARN, DO YA? REMAKES ARE 95% CR by DwDunphy	Apr 6th, 1999 07:54:01 AM
Sorry, no one home. Leave a message. Beep.
Put down the script and no one gets hurt . . . by The Graduate	Apr 6th, 1999 08:03:09 AM
This has got to be the WORST remake idea of the year. HARVEY is the sort of film that a major studio could never pull off today, for the simple reason that YOU NEVER SEE THE RABBIT. The joke is that until the final scene you have NO indication that Elwood P. Dowd is not just a sweet, innocent, charming lunatic. And with the current state of film, which has moved from puppets to muppets to animatronics to 100% computer generated actors, the simplicity of an invisible six-foot tall Pooka rabbit will never sell. No studio will trust the fans to believe in something they can't see, which was, in fact, the entire point of the movie. The producers will, from the get-go, have their concept artists working on sketches for the rabbit. They will try to work around the concept, do cut scenes where "we see what Elwood sees." Where, as Harry predicts, someone will step in invisible rabbit dung. All the subtlety, the brilliance of the concept, will be bled out. Look, HARVEY is a fantastically alive work, both in the classic film version and in the stage version it's based on, which is produced dozens of times a year with the only special effect being that silently opening door. Please, stop this madness before it's too late.
theatre by Bud	Apr 6th, 1999 08:22:00 AM
The only place Harvey belongs now is in the theatre. I have such nice memories of performing in a production of Harvey in the mid 80's. Leave the film alone, mount a B'way revival, DO THE RIGHT THING!!!
BAD by Brimley	Apr 6th, 1999 08:24:19 AM
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Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!! by PDaddy	Apr 6th, 1999 08:41:19 AM
Sorry... just doing my OB1 impression. Seriously, if a movie is spectacularly good, why attempt to remake it??? There's nowhere to go but DOWN!!! Why are all stdio execs idiots? Here's to hoping this one bombs big time.
Blind Hope by Brado	Apr 6th, 1999 08:48:28 AM
Harry, I was really hoping that the title to this article was suggesting that Miramax was going to put Harvey Weinstein away for a while. You know, to "remake" his image/attitude. But nooooo, you have to pull THIS shit, confirming that his head remains firmly in place up his ass. Oh well, I guess we'll have to weather this shitstorm for a few more years(or at least until Miramax stops winning Oscars after he spends millions on ads and has a few legitimate bombs)...and a date on Dogma would be nice...
WHY? by Dingo Wrangler	Apr 6th, 1999 09:24:11 AM
Why? Why? WHy? If they make this movie with Adam Sandler I will seriously consider hitching a ride to Hollywood with an automatic weapon. Likewise for Jim Carrey (although he is a huge step above Adam). Nicolas Cage would blow at that role. Tom Hanks would do a wonderful job (as long as they do not show the rabbit)but my consensus is still LEAVE IT ALONE!! There are so few absolutely perfect movies in the world, why remake the ones that are?
my heart is breaking by Toodles	Apr 6th, 1999 09:39:46 AM
Here's how I spent my Easter: I went to my U/U church, came home, ate bite-sized pieces of ham mixed with baked beans over mashed potatos, watched "It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown" and "Harvey" --both on video. My "Harvey video is a special edition with a 1990 voice over interview with James Stewert. I can't believe how upset I am over this news... And Josephine Hull as Elwood's sister Veeta is a treasure. SHAME on Marimax!!!
Harvey II: The Revenge by GodBear	Apr 6th, 1999 09:49:36 AM
I have a great idea for a NEW movie!! It's about an actor who's movies are really good but some suit remakes them in a really bad way and he gets so mad he comes back from the dead with a machete and butchers an entire studio. Hey Miramax, you're going to be living this movie once ole' Jimmy gets wind of this atrocity. Be looking for those bloody bunny prints in your hallways, you hacks.
I am at a loss for words by Ranger1138	Apr 6th, 1999 09:58:37 AM
How do projects like this see the fraggin light of day? I think the writter of Robocop had it right. He said in the secondary track of the Laser Disc that ED-209 came from his days at Universal. He wished a giant robot would walk in and kill everyone in the boardroom durring pitches like the one for remakes like this. At this point....Let's get Gort from The Day the Earth Stood still [ a movie that is just now moved up one level on the remake front for sure ] and go stomping through Disney's collective creative, and I used that word in the smallest sense, brain trust.
Oh no! by W. Leach	Apr 6th, 1999 10:08:25 AM
NOT ADAM SANDLER AS ELWOOD P. DOWD!! Okay, everybody, sing along: "Love to see rabbits/Love to see Raaaaa-bits! Love to see rabbits, 'cause it's good ..." ugh! Or how about: "Hey! I'm crazy Elwood! I see a rabbit sitting there! Now gimme some candy!"
But seriously ... by W. Leach	Apr 6th, 1999 10:15:17 AM
But seriously, I don't really mind a remake of HARVEY, as long as it's done respectfully. The actor who is chosen to play Elwood must be convincing and have our sympahthy for. He can't be a buffoon tripping all over the place, or talking in ridiculous voices. The laughs come from the CHARACTER, not the actor playing the character. What are there, only three actors in Hollywood? Every time I hear of a new movie project, its either Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks, or Adam Sandler to play the lead. Anyway, like I said, as long as Sellout (oops, I mean Miramax), sticks closely with the original Mary Chase play (which premiered on Broadway in 1944), I think the film could be interesting. Also, wasn't HARVEY recently remade for television with Harry Anderson?
Harvey Remake?! by Obnoxious Bitch	Apr 6th, 1999 10:18:10 AM
Miramax obviously has had a couple of too successful years and now they need a tax write-off. Well, remaking Harvey will pretty much guarantee that! What a fucked idea!! This'll be a bigger bomb than Hiroshima. Millions will be killed, bleeding from the ears, shrieking, NO, NOT THE RABBIT!! NOT THE RAAAABBITTTTTTT!!!!AAAGH! And here I thought this guy Weinstein had something on the ball. What WAS I thinking??!!
Hanks by EWFish	Apr 6th, 1999 10:31:34 AM
Adam Sandler, the new Jimmy Stewart? There must be something to all this talk about the millenium bringing the end of the world. If Tom Hanks is true to his word (and if HE'S not, god help us all), there's no way he'd do "Harvey". Because he's so frequently compared to Stewart, he's very respectful of Jimmy's work and legacy. In discussing his decision to do "You've Got Mail", he said he only did it because "The Shop Around The Corner" was really before Jimmy Stewart became "JIMMY STEWART". But Hanks said he'd never do a remake of "It's A Wonderful Life" or "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" or any of the roles that are so vividly associated with Stewart. Not sure if this would affect his decision whether or not to play Charles Lindbergh.
im such a person who's not nearly as cool as jimmy stewart by L'Auteur	Apr 6th, 1999 10:49:06 AM
today's my birthday!
In the offices of Disney and Miramax by spike lee	Apr 6th, 1999 10:58:38 AM
I can just see it now. The Brothers Weinstein are sitting in front of Mickey Mouse. "You know Mick, we were up all last night thinking of a film to remake, and after about seven hours of silence I started saying my name HHHHHHAAAAARRRVVVYYYY!!!!, and it came to me I remember hearing about this film called Harvey about an imaginary animal, think it was a snake. It had that guy that Dany Carvey always does impressions of in it, well lets remake that one, since Quentin ain't doing nothing. We will have a good budget, I still have about 50 million left after I bought those Oscars. I know Disney prides itself on good family humor, and I came up with a great scene, the imaginary snake? will hit the guy Dana impersonates in the balls, and all anyone sees is the guy hunched over. Laughter fills the theater. The snake will be designed by CGI, or we can get Rick Baker". Mickey Mouse gets out of his chair, and says "Boys, we have ourselves a hit!"
Ridiculous! by mrbeaks	Apr 6th, 1999 11:11:58 AM
It's official! The Weinstein's have outlived their usefulness in Hollywood. They should now be forced to withdraw from the industry completely and contribute all funds that would otherwise be spent on making awful films (or distributing their innocuous film fest pick-ups) to charity. Short of that dream coming true, simply leave HARVEY alone!
Harvey Remake by Cordie	Apr 6th, 1999 11:33:54 AM
I have been reading AICN for months but this is my first posting ,be kind.I absolutely agree that a remake of Harvey is a bad idea.What amazes me is that the studios can not come up with any new material so they take classics and try..well you know.Where are the "stories"the ones Norman Jewison told young film makers to seek out.This web site is well read and oft referred to by others,maybe the message will sink in.
I hope they do cast Adam Sandler... by Rocqueja	Apr 6th, 1999 11:43:41 AM
...because a few years ago a friend in desperate need came to me because the guy he cast as Elwood P. Dowd had broken his leg and the show was to go up in two weeks. I am known for a great memory but lousy acting skills (I'm a techie, damn it!) and he needed someone who could memorize the script and fast. I accepted. It has gone down in theatre as the worst Elwood P. Dowd in history. But if they cast Sandler, I would be redeemed and become the second worst in history!
remake by Lester	Apr 6th, 1999 12:52:07 PM
What about the version Scorsese and Paul Schrader made with the New York Television Actor's Theater? ("He's a big rabbit Carmine, only you can't see him!")
Is Nothing Sacred ? by RobinP	Apr 6th, 1999 02:00:34 PM
There are some films........not a lot, but some, that should never be remade. Apart from the obvious, Ben Hur, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind.....how about Forbidden Planet, Day The Earth Stood Still,It's a Wonderful Life, Wizard of Oz.......and Harvey. Harvey will undoubtedly suffer the same fate as The Absent Minded professor.......another film that didn't need a remake ! They'll get ILM to show the rabbit, and there'll be anal or excretia jokes to try and make it hip and clever. The project is doomed to creative failure because today's big studios are all run by men in suits who have no creative vision save the almighty dollar.They have no concept of subtlety other than a good opening weekend. Remakes, I spit on them, for the most part. For every good remake, like John Carpenter's "The Thing" there are several King Kongs, Godzillas, Psychos and Invaders from Mars. Some one please go to Miramax, find the shitsmear who thought this no-brainer up, and give him a barbed wire suppository !!!! That's my two cents worth !
Forget Harvey, where the FUCK is RAMBO 4? RAMBO 4 is going to be by ABking	Apr 6th, 1999 02:14:51 PM
I want to see Harvey and Bob Weinstien fund the proposed 70-100 million RAMBO 4 film. It's about time Rambo took on a new group of Bad-asses. FUCK Harvey, where is RAMBO 4?????????????
done before by LedgeRat	Apr 6th, 1999 08:22:43 PM
it was also remade with the guy from Night Court (Harry Anderson guy)...Tom Hanks has said in interview that he WOULD NOT remake any Jimmy Stewart films..unless they were obscur small films....he is aware of and flattered with the comparisons, but does not want to continue them.
Day The Earth Stood Still by DwDunphy	Apr 6th, 1999 08:47:00 PM
James Cameron owns the remake rights and has been hammering away silently at it for years. One more turd to fling at us, my fellow apes.
DwD...Please say that you were kidding by Ranger1138	Apr 6th, 1999 09:41:54 PM
Last time I make a joke like that. That is one of the worst bits of news since the ID4 sequel proposal. "Dogma"! I want "Dogma". Screw the other Miramax artsy Shaks. In Love crap. I want real film. Or at least a pretty convincing simulation will do. Dimension is actulay looking more original everyday now.
REMAKES by Profez	Apr 6th, 1999 09:56:33 PM
I hate remakes. I had to write a persuasive essay for literature class, and I had a great one prepared about the evil of Hollywood remakes. Then my teacher pulled the switch and said, SCREW THE ESSAY, WE'RE JUST GONNA MAKE POSTERS! Well, I was paraphrasin' Anyway, I think that the hollywood remake is the first and most obvious proof of the imppending destruction as a legitimate film business. And now that the usually-original Mirimax is in the game, well, that just tears it. But I agree, they should remake the bad movies. I vote for Dr. Detroit. I have no idea where I'm going with this post. sorry.
Dogma by Spacey	Apr 6th, 1999 10:26:00 PM
I read somewhere, and heard from another source that Miramax is trying to shop around Dogma. Evidently the subject matter is derogatory to the Catholic Church, and after that little movie called The Priest they are not anxious for more backlash. So, we might be waiting for a long while.
This really IS a late April fool joke, right? by pepper	Apr 6th, 1999 11:14:30 PM
If not, it really is obvious that no one in Hollywood has had an original idea in years. Hence all of the sequels and remakes. Do any Hollywood bigshots actually read boards like this? If so and anybody from Miramax is out there: LISTEN BUDDY, THIS IS ONE COLOSSALLY, MONUMENTALLY STUPID IDEA THAT IS GUARANTEED TO HAVE HORDES OF MOVIE FANS CURSING YOUR COLLECTIVE NAME FOR ALL ETERNITY!
Harveys last Stand by CaptainWalker	Apr 6th, 1999 11:54:35 PM
I WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES PAY ANY MONEY TO SEE THIS MOVIE! It was done right the first time! Any attempts to make modern one will seem dirty and sullied. DO NOT DO THIS!
BAD IDEA!!!! by Fairlane	Apr 7th, 1999 12:08:34 AM

Dogma by Heywood	Apr 7th, 1999 12:22:47 AM
The whole Dogma thing: You know it's gonna be bad. How can it not be? Chasing Amy was bad and so was Mallrats. He has yet to achieve anything that equals Clerks. I'm waiting for Sleepy Hollow, American Pie, The Blair Witch Hunt, and 5/19.
may a hundred pookas rewrite all of miramax's files by Gwynn	Apr 7th, 1999 02:06:26 AM
and we might just get a decent script? Just hoping.... I too do not see why such a wonderfull movie has to be remade(massacred) by a big studio. The idea of Sandler, Carrey or even worse Hanks trying to reprise master Stewart's role sends shivers up my spines. I hope this is only a nightmare, but if it has to be real could they at least consider someone like B.Faggerbake? he can certainly convey portray the sweetness and "not all togetherness" of the character. And his voice and delivery is much closer to Master Stewart's than the three idiots mentioned. So there.. I'm off my soap box now.
I'm as against this as anybody... by Justin Sane	Apr 7th, 1999 04:56:22 AM
...but if they DID remake it, they shouldn't use that friggin' Adam Sandler, that's for DAMN sure. I hope he dies in a flaming plane wreck. Oh, that's not very nice of me. Okay, a BUS wreck. If this film MUST be made, I must put forth my casting choice: Crispin Glover. Oh, a remake of a bad movie? Well, how about Howard The Duck? And make it like the comics, this time, DAMN YOU!!!!
What's the B.F.D. ? by -Z-	Apr 7th, 1999 08:46:35 AM
Ok now, everyone just take a deep breath and chill. I know that it may seem silly to remake a great film, but it has been done ever since the beginning of the medium. Besides, what is a work? The screenplay, the play, the movie, the book? All coexist happily under the title "Harvey" and have done so for decades. Perhaps it's a throwback to painting. People just don't like it when someone reworks a piece of art in the same medium. If Miramax announced they would be coming out with a special edition Harvey Screenplay (with pictures from the original movie) you'd be slobbering all over yourselves to buy it. Now all of a sudden you're freaking out, why? How is a remake possibly, in any way, going to lessen the greatness of the original? It won't. If the remake is good it'll only serve to make people curious how it compares to the original. And if it's bad it'll only serve to make people curious how it compares to the original. Either way more people will most likely go to BlockHead and rent Harvey because of a remake then would have before. So take a valium and don't worry. The J. Stewart Harvey is NOT going anywhere.
Umm, I got a take on this by GodBear	Apr 7th, 1999 09:53:01 AM
There are good movies to be made!! Stop wasting time and money on crap!! Remakes lack originality of concept and as such insult the intelligence of the viewer. Even if the remake of this movie is the best remake ever, with a totally different take on the movie and themes, direction, humor, it will still be a waste. Why? Because if there was all this talent to spare and hard work was put into the remake, it would have made a great ORIGINAL movie. Pick a new story, a truly original basis fo r a film, and with the same quality film-making, viola instant classic. But remakes seem to aim at mediocrity from the start by not trying something original as the cornerstone of the project.
heywood, sequals by Toodles	Apr 7th, 1999 11:32:15 AM
FIRST: Heywood, I respect your gripe about "Mallrats" and "Chasing Amy" but I disagree. Both have some of the best writing around. SECOND: Friends, wanna know where all the sequal spewing started? "Sabrina" with Harrison Ford, that's where!!!!!!!!!!! That movie did well --better on video-- and the bloodsuckers in Hollywood are out for some of that sequal action $$$$$$$$$$$$
Remakes by Rocqueja	Apr 7th, 1999 11:56:23 AM
Remakes can be good, bad or indifferent but that's not what bothers me. What bothers me is the lack of creativity going into the remakes. For all true cinema geeks The Maltese Falcon is one of the greatest movies ever but it's a remake, in fact it's the second remake, but it was great because of the work of every one involved. It deviated from the original in look, tone and direction to create one of the true greats. The lack of trying something new with remakes (particularly Psycho 98, which was so neutral as to be bland) is really annoying. Remember as a wise man once said, it is not the tale, but he who tells it! And recently the tellers have bit big time!
oh i get it by -Z-	Apr 7th, 1999 12:23:21 PM
you're mad about the "resources" being wasted on mediocre work. You're worried about having your intelligence insulted yet again by the people who control the media. hehe and lemme guess. you thought "She's All That" was a refreshing and original movie that touched the hearts of millions. well no shit sherlock. You don't like media content? Make your own movies, and stop complaining about mindless drivel. Because people in Hollywood make movies to SELL TICKETS not to satisfy your artistic sensibilities. If you haven't realized this by now, I dunno what to tell ya.
This whole remake question by Sibling	Apr 8th, 1999 01:52:32 PM
It isn't that all remakes are always bad -- there were remakes and retakes on movies in even the 40s and 50s, and some of them were junk and some of them were good. If a good filmmaker does a remake, it can be a good thing. But most of the remakes these days are studio hacks trying to churn out pre-digested nostalgia. What they did to "The Avengers" was criminal. As for the hack-and-slash job they did on a classic like "The Man in the Iron Mask", I have better uses for my time than to watch Gerard Depardieu making fart jokes. (That thing was perhaps the greatest waste of a good cast that I've ever seen.) As for Tom Hanks...maybe he could pull it off. I don't know how many middle-aged actors there are who could do innocent without regressing into Dumb and Dumber. Elwood P. Dowd's a bit fey, but he's not stupid!
Remake of Harvey: Dumbest idea since Psycho remake. Maybe dumber by Cuppa Joe	Apr 8th, 1999 07:32:39 PM
I LOVE the original Harvey. I won, and watch it all the time. It's onw of my favorites. To bastardize this classic by redoing it at all is cinematic sacrilage. Forget about what OTHER actor could play Elwood P. Dowd. NO other actor can play him. Only Jimmy Stewart had that natural innocence that lent believability and caring for that character. And Adam Sandler? At least Carrey can do good dramatic acting. Let's all have an Adam Sandler film fest...we see 2 or 3 films of him beating the living crap out of somebody, then we see him trying to be innocent. Yeesh. The whole idea, as they say in French, (well actually they don't it's not proper grammar) suce le GRAND un.
Say What? by Mr. Mafia	Apr 9th, 1999 12:04:21 AM
Let me get this striaght hollywood is thinking about remaking the movie Harvey, one of the greatest films ever made. Now lets look at it this way Harvey= Perfection Remake= Stupid idea, from the beggining and would be a total cosatrophe, when it ain't broke don't fix it. Nobody could play Jimmy's role plus his aunts role (oscar winner) nobody do you here me nobody why did this have to happpen tell you what i'll buy the rights to it and keep the film far away from hollywood there is only one thing thta should be done with the movie and that is to make more and more copies of it and hand them out wo everybody can see it
Bad Miramax! Very bad Miramax! No studio treat for you! by Wolfpack	Jul 17th, 2006 08:15:59 AM

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