Thanks pretty much entirely to a promising script from Joel and Ethan Coen, the upcoming remake of the 1966 heist comedy Gambit is one of the few Hollywood re-dos that doesn't feel so entirely like a conscious attempt at ruining something. The cast--which includes Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, and Alan Rickman--isn't doing so bad for itself either, and you can see a first look at it in action in this unfortunately-incomplete first trailer, which seems to prematurely cut off shortly after Rickman appears in the nude. Such are the risks of trusting uploads from YouTube's ObsessedRickmaniac.
CBS Films' Gambit remake only has a (much-noted) script from Joel and Ethan Coen, but their hand is quite evident in this first full trailer for the film. Directed by Soapdish and The Last Station director Michael Hoffman, the comedy still manages to give off a definite scent o... / Continue →
Michael Hoffman's Coen Brothers-scripted remake of Gambit began shooting in London this month, and CBS has just released a first look at stars Cameron Diaz and Colin Firth as they appear filling in for the original's Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine. The "sibling cops in a ne... / Continue →
Stripping away all the naturalism and Etsy aesthetic that makes Michel Gondry films Michel Gondry films, Gondry appears to have delivered his most generic-looking, broadly-plotted film to date with the would-be blockbuster The Green Hornet, and we're finally getting a good look... / Continue →
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First Footage from Coen-Scripted 'Gambit' Remake
\n\nThanks pretty much entirely to a promising script from Joel and Ethan Coen, the upcoming remake of the 1966 heist comedy Gambit is one of the few Hollywood re-dos that doesn't feel so entirely like a conscious attempt at ruining something. The cast--which includes Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, and Alan Rickman--isn't doing so bad for itself either, and you can see a first look at it in action in this unfortunately-incomplete first trailer, which seems to prematurely cut off shortly after Rickman appears in the nude. Such are the risks of trusting uploads from YouTube's ObsessedRickmaniac.