Poster for movie remake of THE WOMEN

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 9:33pm

Just found this posted on the movie's page on IMDB.

Hopefully this means that this is finally gaining some steam. I'm very interested to see how this movie turns out as I love the play and the original film.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 9:43pm

I like it. I love the play and film as well, so I am looking forward to this now!

[defying_gravity2]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 10:55pm

I'm excited about this. It's one of my favorite movies.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 12:26am

The poster is great - I'm not too optomistic about Diane English's remake though...

[wickedfan]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 11:50am

I remember reading about this somewhere, Ashley Judd, Sandra Bullock, and Uma Thurman were all attached, right? What is the supposed cast list now?

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 12:35pm

I gather it'll be a modern day, "Sex in the City"-style remake?

Whoopie.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 2:50pm

I like the poster. Very creative. Hopefully it will get a really strong cast.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 2:53pm

Initially this version was to be with Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Kirstey Alley, Olympia Dukakis and others.

Yes, THAT'S how long this has been going on.

[lildogs]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 2:55pm

Diane English? eek....

[glimpseofstocking]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 4:44pm

I'm with Michael Bennett on this. Great poster, but I'm not looking forward to the movie. I love the play and the 1939 film, but I have a feeling this remake will be very much inferior

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 5:10pm

Nice. Haven't seen the original but it looks interesting. *Orders it on Blockbuster.com*

[keen on kean]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 5:13pm

Acted in the original in an amateur production. Never felt there was much there - and it will require a major re-write to make sense in 21st Century setting. But you never know...

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 5:31pm

and it will require a major re-write to make sense in 21st Century setting.

Men cheating on women with younger/more attractive women? Divorce? Catty and bitchy women talking behind their "friends'" backs?

This does not require a major re-write.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 7:23pm

The scandal and heart break of divorce in the 30s and 40s certainly doesn't exist today in most of American society. It was then a mark of a failure in the one thing women "had" to succeed at - even if it was a man's "fault". It reminds me of "Brief Encounter" - one of my favorite movies of all time. When it was remade in the 1960's with (I think) Richard Burton and Sophia Loren (!?) it had no impact because extra marital sexual encounters were no longer "extraordinary". So the plot of THE WOMEN works - it is just hard to make it resonate much emotionally. It is just another reality show treatment.