Not sure WHY anyone would try and remake WSS or even why one would want to. It may the single most successful stage-to-film adaptation ever made, a gigantic box office success, multiple Oscar-winner, a classic, one of the standards by which other musicals (and films) are compared. Heck, you could re-release it now and it would STILL Make money. What director in his right mind would try to remake it, knowing full well he can't equal the original? What studio would spend $100 million (which is probably what it would cost now) to re-do something so legendary? Why try to fix what ain't broken?
If you want to remake something, why not pick one of the DOZENS of stage shows that Hollywood has f---ed up over the years and do it right this time -- from Man of La Mancha to A Little Night Music to The Wiz to Mame to A Chorus Line (which maybe should be left to be a great stage musical and not bother to screw it up again by filming it).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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