Home'Women' on the Verge of a Remake
Nov 8, 2006, 06:26 PM | by Whitney Pastorek
Categories: Film, Stage/Theater
Murphy Brown creator Diane English has been laboring on and off for the last 12 years to remake George Cukor's 1939 film The Women, and the wheels are once again in motion, with reports that Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Anne Hathaway, and Candice Bergen are attached to star when shooting begins in March.
One can only hope. Here is a list of all the women who have, at one time or another, been attached to The Women:
Meg Ryan
Julia Roberts
Candice Bergen
Blythe Danner
Marisa Tomei
Holly Hunter
Whitney Houston (oh, yeah, put her in it now, that'll be good)
Helen Hunt
Sandra Bullock
Annette Bening
Uma Thurman
Queen Latifah
Ashley Judd
On top of all that, at one point, Mick Jagger was said to have agreed to finance the project. James L. Brooks was originally slated to direct, followed by An Ideal Husband's Oliver Parker, and now English herself is said to be at the helm, although IMDb tells us that she's also got a movie called First Man, starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, on her 2007 schedule. (It is times like this that one questions IMDb.)
Anyway, what's all the hoopla? Hard to say. Originally a play by Clare Boothe Luce, The Women has been revived and remade many times (most recently as a 2001 Broadway revival with Kristen Johnston, Rue McClanahan, Cynthia Nixon, and Jennifer Tilly), and it's hardly the freshest concept (ooh, bored high society wives!). Still, if English keeps with the tradition of the original, there will be plenty of meaty roles on which the female stars may chew... and nary a man in sight; Cukor cast all 130 speaking roles with women.
Oh. I think we just figured out why this project can't get made.
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