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

[Starman]

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.

 

[KJIM]

Gosh, I just watched this the other day.

Doesn't Hollywood have any new ideas?

 

[Starman]

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.

 

[EStreetJoe]

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

 

[heyabbott]

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.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

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.

 

[outofplace]

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.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

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.

Morgan Freeman as the guy who runs the government camp.

 

[Buck]

Likely, this will do no service to the novel.

 

[RickStain]

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

 

[dixiehack]

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

Everything's riding on who plays Rose of Sharron.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Who plays the turtle?

 

[bigpern23]

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.

Spielberg was born to direct Moby ****!

 

[HanSenSE]

Jury still out on Muley?