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Madonna Wants to Remake Casablanca
By Allie | March 30, 2008
Madonna has stunned the movie industry with plans to remake Casablanca – and this time set it in Iraq.
Daily Mail reports,
The singer, whose previous film career has been littered with critical and commercial turkeys, is also planning to take the lead role of Ilsa Lund, which originally made a star of Ingrid Bergman.
A source at a major Hollywood studio that was recently approached by the 49-year-old star said:
“She is still determined to make it in the movies.
She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all time.”
In the 1942 original, Bergman starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, who played Rick Blaine, a cynical bar owner in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in the early days of the Second World War. Ilsa is torn between love for her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, and her ex-lover Rick.
Madonna is said to believe the film will make her reputation as an actress, after a string of high-profile flops such as Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence and Swept Away, her much-derided 2002 collaboration with husband Guy Ritchie.
What others said:
- Dlisted says, “The story is probably a bunch of bullcaca, but I believe that it’s crossed Madonna’s mind. The woman thinks she can do anything! I’m sure she has thoughts of remaking the Sistine Chapel, because she knows she can do a better job.”
source: Madonna wants to remake Casablanca - and of all the places in all the world, she plans to set it in war-torn Iraq [daily mail]
Topics: Madonna, Wired Gossip, Wired Movies |
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March 31st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Worst idea anyone has ever had. Literally.