There is a scary rumour doing the rounds that Madonna plans to remake Casablanca. I must admit, as a rule, I'm not a fan of remakes of films which were actually good the first time round. It just smacks of arrogance. Obviously, some films do benefit from advances in technology - for example, John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing from Another World, does improve on the original - but many do not, and Casablanca is in the latter category. So why bother?
I agree with Filmstalker that the idea does sound like a good one but will it work? Maybe it will be a good film, but even so it will still suffer from constant comparisons with the original which is so enormously popular.
What do you think? Are remakes always bad? Do you think this particular one will work? What are your favourite or most disliked remakes?
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