Annie Get Your Gun Film Remake

[Jessetenny]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:09pm

Who else thinks that a remake of Annie Get Your Gun would be a great film? I think Anna Kendrick as the title role would be awesome, or Megan Hilty since she did awesome at Encores!

Let me know what you guys think!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:11pm

Why?

 

You would get the pc version . In addition, the one that we have was fine. It would have been dynamite with the original star Judy Garland.

Updated On: 2/23/16 at 12:11 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:14pm

If there's one thing I hate on this planet, it's agreeing with Roxy. 

But you could never remake that musical now without it being so politically correct, that it would fundamentally change the piece. A remake would be an absolutely terrible idea.

[Patash]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:19pm

"If there's one thing I hate on this planet, it's agreeing with Roxy."

 

Did we just witness Hell freezing over?

 

By the way, I agree -- horrible idea.

 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:21pm

Oh my god. Jordan agrees with me. Can mideast peace be far behind?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:33pm

But you could never remake that musical now without it being so politically correct, that it would fundamentally change the piece. A remake would be an absolutely terrible idea

 

Didn't they revise it for the revival?

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:39pm

Much as I enjoy and admire the show, I don't see a movie remake being a success.

If they did, while Kendrick and Hilty are fine ideas, I'd want Annaleigh Ashford.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:44pm

Movies of current shows are one thing. Movies of shows more than 60 years old I doubt would have much of a market.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:55pm

CBS was interested in doing their film adaptation around 2001 with Reba McEntire after her enormously well-received run in the Broadway revival.  

 

THIS is the remake that should have been done.  Period.  

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 1:40pm

 

Who else thinks that a remake of Annie Get Your Gun would be a great film? 

 

No one. Next question.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 5:43pm

Its a meh show (with a knockout score) and is so old-fashioned that a new film would just be silly.

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 6:03pm

"Didn't they revise it for the revival?"

 

Yes, they PC'd it up. 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 6:05pm

I would not consider it  "meh" show.

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 6:23pm

I read recently in a bio that Barbara Streisand briefly optioned the rights to ANNIE GET YOUR GUN in the late 70s and planned to star in a film remake after A STAR IS BORN.  Can you imagine?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 6:50pm

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 7:57pm

What was fundamentally changed about the revival?

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:04pm

From Wikipedia:

 

For the 1999 revival, Peter Stone revised the libretto, eliminating what were considered insensitive references to American Indians, including the songs "Colonel Buffalo Bill" and "I'm An Indian Too".[10] Stone said, "The big challenge is taking a book that was wonderfully crafted for its time and make it wonderfully crafted for our time... It was terribly insensitive...to Indians.... But it had to be dealt with in a way that was heartfelt and not obvious... In this case, it was with the permission of the heirs. They're terribly pleased with it."[11] Stone also altered the structure of the musical, beginning it with "There's No Business Like Show Business" and presenting the musical as a "show within a show".[9]

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:18pm

And that was a bad thing because....?

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:23pm

I didn't say it was good or bad...just different. I enjoyed the revival and I'm not old enough to have seen the original.