Rob Marshall has retained the services of his “Pirates of the Caribbean : On Stranger Tides” star Johnny Depp for a remake of the 1934 film ”The Thin Man”…. actually, I wrote that wrong – Depp’s actually been developing the project for quite some time, so he’d have been the one to bring Marshall onboard – not the other way around. Whatever. Blame the confusion on that tasty but dangerous bottle of Don Julio 1942 Tequila I made out with last night. Jerry Stahl (the “ALF” creator!) has written the script for the film which, I’ve since discovered (damn you Tequila!), was actually a book before it was… anything else.
Warner Bros tell us ”the pair will produce the film via their LUCAMAR Productions banner. LUCAMAR Productions joins Infinitum Nihil Company and Langley Park Pictures as production companies on the project. In addition to DeLuca and Marshall, Johnny Depp and Christi Dembrowski are producing on behalf of Infinitum Nihil, and Kevin McCormick is producing on behalf of his Langley Park Pictures. Jerry Stahl is attached as screenwriter. Says Marshall, “John and I are overjoyed at the idea of working with Johnny again, especially on such a classy and classic project. We are also thrilled to be partnering this time with such wonderful producers as Christi Dembroski and Kevin McCormick, and we are looking forward to working with Warner Bros. to create a reinvention of a beloved story.””
Oh, and before I forget, here’s a synopsis of the original film from Amazon :
W.S. Van Dyke’s marvelous adaptation of a Dashiell Hammet novel. The movie gods were in a generous mood when they paired William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, the upper-class sophisticates whose sleuthing escapades somehow joined the classic form of the whodunit with the giddyup of screwball comedy. Among the series’ many attributes, one of its most radical notions was the idea that a married couple might find each other delightful and view life as a goofy adventure together.
Is that not the most all-over-the-place news item you’ve ever read?
Need aspirin.
