REBOOT TIME! Spielberg to produce new film version of 'The Grapes of Wrath' ?

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/dreamworks-steven-spielberg-plan-to-bring-back-tom-joad-with-new-version-of-john-steinbecks-the-grapes-of-wrath/

But apparently not direct.

Coen Bros?


Who's in the cast?

Edward Norton as Tom Joad? Or, I could see Joseph Gordon-Levitt if they wanted to go a little more age-accurate (Tom in mid-30s).

Kathy Bates as Ma?

Gary Sinise as Casy?

David Straithairn as Pa?

and a heavily aged-up Peter Fonda as Grandpa.

 

Gosh, I just watched this the other day.

Doesn't Hollywood have any new ideas?

 

Well, it's arguable a significantly different and possibly superior version of TGOW could be done under today's looser censorship standards. I presume they wouldn't just do a scene-for-scene rehash of the Ford/Fonda classic.

 

A classic film and one of my favorite novels.
Not sure how they could improve upon the original.

 

It's almost a perfect adaptation. Ford and Fonda lived thru the drepression, they knew what they were doing. Speilberg will make a myth and hero. Joad was not a hero but a survivor with dignity. Speilberg can't do that.

 

I'm sure this is building off the whatever strength Gatsby brought. Next, we'll probably see a Hemingway film. I'm down with all of it. For those complaining about Hollywood reboots, pshhhh, this is something I welcome. Rebooting comic heroes for the fifth time in 10 years is jacked. Updated revisions of American classics ... nothing wrong with that.

 

They've also got Faulkner's As I Lay Dying coming later this year. James Franco wrote the screenplay.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1807944/?ref_=sr_1

It's pretty straightforward for Faulkner, but I'm still not sure how well that will work.

 

Morgan Freeman as the guy who runs the government camp.

 

Likely, this will do no service to the novel.

 

Are they going to tape it over the last copy of the original or something?

 

Everything's riding on who plays Rose of Sharron.

 

Who plays the turtle?