Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake

[MrMidwest]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#1

Posted: 3/24/11 at 7:59pm

"Back in October of last year, word around the campfire was that Johnny Depp was aggressively pursuing his Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall to helm a contemporary re-make of The Thin Man (1934). The film would feature Depp in the lead role of Nick Charles, a hard-boiled ex-private eye who solves crimes with his wealthy socialite wife.

It has recently been announced that the project now has an attached screenwriter. Jerry Stahl (Moonlighting, CSI) will write the script, but the director’s chair is still yet to be filled. However, Rob Marshall remains the frontrunner for the position.

The Thin Man, written in 1934, was the last novel penned by master of hard-boiled crime Dashiell Hammett. Although the novel was written as a stand-alone story, it was adapted into a series of films during the ’30s and ’40s starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as the witty crime-solving couple Nick and Nora Charles."
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[PalJoey]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#2

Posted: 3/24/11 at 8:20pm

But who plays Nora?





And who plays Asta?

(Miss Holly is too old.)

[Roscoe]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#2

Posted: 3/24/11 at 9:25pm

This might be interesting, if Depp decides to keep closer to the spirit of Hammett's novel, which is a brutal little story about a family of predatory monsters who keep trying to drag Nick Charles, completely against his will, into their doings.
While there's a degree of wit in the novel, of course, it is not at all the delicious light comedy that the movies are. Depp would be an interesting version of Hammett's Nick Charles, a retired private eye who wants to live out his days managing his wife's money and drinking himself senseless, not necessarily in that order.

But of course, with the cinematically retarded Rob Marshall at the helm, it will be a disaster, blah blah blah. What strange gypsy curse does Marshall cast on people like Depp to get them to disgrace themselves in his monstrous abortions?

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[madbrian]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#3

Posted: 3/25/11 at 9:42am

If Streisand can play Rose Hovick, Miss Holly can certainly play Asta.

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[Borstalboy]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#4

Posted: 3/25/11 at 9:49am

Depp is always a dud when playing "normal guys" and has never had any onscreen chemistry with any of his leading ladies.

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[FindingNamo]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#5

Posted: 3/25/11 at 11:38am

Two paws up for madbrian!

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[PalJoey]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#6

Posted: 3/25/11 at 11:54am

Miss Holly says, "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Depp."

[Paul Bland4]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#7

Posted: 3/25/11 at 3:23pm

Was this supposed to be before or after the "Dark Shadows" and "Rum Diaries" are filmed?

[Roscoe]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#8

Posted: 5/10/11 at 12:28pm

Dear Johnny Depp,

Selling your soul to Satan is one thing...


But selling it to Rob Marshall?

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#9

Posted: 5/10/11 at 12:49pm

Looking forward to this. Wonder if any of the actresses Marshall has worked with before will end up playing Nora, it seems like actors like to come back to work with him.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[Mister Matt]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#10

Posted: 5/11/11 at 2:11pm

If The Tourist hadn't proved to be a miserable dud, I would have thought Angelina Jolie would be the right pairing for Depp in this project. Gwyneth Paltrow seems an obvious choice, but I'd rather not go there. Amy Adams could work.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[PalJoey]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#11

Posted: 5/11/11 at 8:37pm

As long as it isn't Catherine Beta-Jones.

[best12bars]

Johnny Depp Moving Forward with Thin Man Remake#12

Posted: 5/11/11 at 9:09pm

They can all kiss my Asta.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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