ODG No! VARIETY: Remakes of "Midnight"! & "The Women"!

"Midnight" is 1 of my all-time fav films. Couldn't we just skip the remake w/Witherspoon & jump to the Broadway musical stage? Arndt to rewrite.

Colbert, Amichi & Barrymore were perfect in this film to the utmost degree.

& while we're at it, I wish they'd keep their cotten-pickin' hands off THE WOMEN:

"Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra Messing and Candice Bergen have either signed or are near committing to star in a contemporized version of the George Cukor-directed film, which Picturehouse will distribute domestically next year."

THE WOMEN writer attached is Diane English.

Is there a musicalized version of THE WOMEN?

Lord deliver me....

Milla, praying she'll be pleasantly surprised, but doubtful

"This is one of those movies I'll believe exists when I'm actually able to buy a ticket. "

An excellent policy on anything adapted from a play, musical, or especially comic book.

Oh, and have you ever seen the original movie of "The Women"? A remake can only improve.

Meg Ryan's face has changed since she was first attached to this.

Please Lord let it stay in Development Hell *just* a bit longer.....

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I LOVED The Opposite Sex! I thought it was thoroughly charming. And why remake a classic like The Women? No no no no no.

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I don't think The Woman would do well these days. Especially with TV shows like Desparate Housewives. The topic isn't as big as it was back in 1939. Also, you can't get any funnier than Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosiland Russell. Let those "jungle red" claws come out!

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Paulyd -- though it was marketed as a 'movie musical', you're absolutely right in regards to the film not really being a 'musical'. The 'musical' numbers didn't advance the plot in any way, they were all 'performance' numbers for the characters.

Here's a list of the songs/numbers performed in the film:

"The Opposite Sex"
Written by Sammy Kahn, Nicholas Brodszky
Performed over the opening credits by Dolores Gray
Performed during "The Psychiatrist" musical sketch with Dick Shawn, Jim Backus,
Joan Collins and Carolyn Jones


"Young Man With a Horn"
Written by Sammy Kahn, Nicholas Brodszky
Performed and danced by June Allyson, with horn solo by Harry James


"A Perfect Love"
Written by Sammy Kahn, Nicholas Brodszky
Performed by June Allyson (singing voice by: Jo Ann Greer)


"Yellow Gold"
Written by Sammy Kahn, Nicholas Brodszky
Performed by Jerry Antes, Joan Collins and Carolyn Jones


"Rock and Roll Tumbleweed"
Written by Ralph Freed, George E. Stoll
Performed by Jeff Richards


"Now Baby Now"
Written by Sammy Kahn and Nicholas Brodszky
Performed and danced by June Allyson and male chorus

Yeah, that poster is a bit creepy. The heads are not in proportion with the body at all.

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Brodyfosse - Thanks for that. I was just pissed off that they wasted such a great array of talent, but i suppose MGM at that time were trying to venture away slightly from musical as much of their musical output in the couple of years before The Opposite of Sex were bombing.

I personally like most of the MGM Cinemascope movies. It's Always Fairweather is one of my favs

Idina and Kristen could star!

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