Audrey Tautou is topless in a new English-language remake of the French classic, Going Places.
That probably doesn’t sound too odd to you, but the details are fascinating. One of the two male leads is played by John Turturro, as one of his famous movie characters, Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski. The alternate title for the film is The Jesus Rolls. There are only two reviews available, Variety and The Hollywood reporter, and they were not positive.
(The Coen Brothers were not involved in this project in any way, and it is not a sequel to The Big Lebowski. They simply gave Turturro permission to base a story on his character. The film is simply as I described it, a remake of Going Places with the Depardieu character being replaced by The Jesus.)
This is simultaneously appalling and genius. Could be the next big Hollywood trend. Take a random character from one movie, put them in a equally random remake of another!
Travis Bickle in Children of a Lesser God: “ARE . . YOU. . . TALKING. . . TO. . . ME?”
Ralphie’s Mom in Chinatown: “I told you’ll shoot your eye out!”
Gunney Sergeant Hartman in Frozen: “I don’t know but I’ve been told . . . Eskimo pussy is mighty cold!”
Winnie-the-Pooh in Jerry Maguire: “Show me the honey!”
Robo-Cop in Boogie Nights: “Dead or alive you’re coming with me!”
I’m all for it. Shows a lot more creativity than the usual pile of sequels, reboots and ripoffs.
Spock in Animal House: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.”
Tony Montana in Paddington Bear: [dialed way the fuck back] “Say hello to my lil friend.”
The screw from Cool Hand Luke in Alien: “Any man loses his spoon spends the night in The Box.”
Thanks, fwald! You have a big future in the Hollywood of right now.
I’d like to see Pee Wee Herman in the Schindler’s List remake.
Also Tuco in the remake of Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield in Toy Story 5.
Lloyd and Harry as The Knight and Death in the long-awaited remake of The Seventh Seal.
And of course, Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder version) in The Notebook remake. In fact, Willy Wonka in pretty much any remake.
I loved it when Tara Reid was trying to get tongues wagging and generate buzz to make Lebowski 2 happen. The Coens’ answer was equal parts classy and hilarious: “We fully support Tara and her project, we will be there for the premier.”
Talk about great flicks unlikely to ever be remade well, Going Places would have been near the top if I had ever made up a list.
Peter Davidson is in the Movie…nuff said.