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EXCLUSIVE: Limitless helmer Neil Burger is in talks to team up with screenwriter Sheldon Turner and producers Sean and Bryan Furst and Marissa McMahon to bring to the screen a new version of the Depression Era outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. Rights have been acquired by financier McMahon and her Kamala Films banner on Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, a book by Jeff Guinn published last year by Simon & Schuster. The book paints a less romanticized version than the 1967 Arthur Penn-directed film that starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. For one thing, the outlaws were just 22 when they were gunned down by a former Texas Ranger after they’d killed seven people. The first person Clyde Barrow killed was the cell mate who had sexually abused him repeatedly. Barrow had a strong code of honor: when a lifer in the prison took the rap for the killing, Barrow and his gang broke him out. The book also suggests that Bonnie Parker was a prostitute before joining up with and eventually going down in a hail of bullets with Barrow. The project’s financier, McMahon, is the wife of Shane McMahon, the son of the pro wrestling mogul Vince McMahon. Burger’s not committed. He’s booked to next direct Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, the Sony Pictures adaptation of the video game. Turner will write the script before directing By Virtue Fall with financing from QED later this year. CAA reps Burger and Turner.
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Nothing like a good outlaw tale. I love the Illusionist. Hopefully it will come with the style he did on Limitless and a dose of Richard Branson!
Maybe in this version they can have a murder subplot that just gets abandoned like he did in Limitless.
Hahaha. How ridiculous, right? Man, enough of this.
As long as it isn’t like Public Enemies. Yuck
Absolutely hated Limitless.
comment by Drafted? you truly are an idiot
Can’t wait for this… Great pairing. This is the sort of thing Turner can knock out of the park.
Comment by bob? Whoa.
Exactly what Turner’s good at: “tortured souls”. Add Ryan Gossling and some hottie and you’ll have yourself smart retelling of this piece of Americana.
Or we could all just ‘stream’ the movie — Warren and Faye — can’t get much better — in fact, better yet — just re-release it…
The untold TRUE STORY — I mean please – really. Is it going to be a documentary?! A mocumentary?!
Does anyone know what happened to the Hilary Duff / Kevin Zegers remake that was planned? I hope for the humanity’s sake that got scrapped.
Let’s hope the mcmahon’s can finally produce a good movie. I love the name kamala films production company named after kamala the ugandan giant
Wait — is this a remake of the Beatty/Dunaway classic or the recent Hilary Duff classic?
Everyone, relax. This movie will NEVER get made.
IT LOOK LIKE THE WRITER WILL REWROTE THE HISTORY OF BONNIE AND CLYDE INTO A OUTLAW HEROES. DOCUMENTARY WILL BE THE LAST THING THAT THE MOVIES WILL PICTURES. IT WILL BE LIKE THE OUTLAW MOVIES OF THE THIRTY AND FORTY WHERE THE TRUTH GOES OUT THE WINNER. I GOT A SAD FEELING THAT I WILL BE ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BUY THE DVD WHEN DEBUT. GOOD LUCK TO THE FUTURE. YOUR TRULY CHARLES DAVID HASKELL
I hope this movie doesn’t get made. I did not like the Jeff Guinn book. In he’s book he turns Bonnie into a prostitute, Why because she wrote a poem about prostitutes. So much for looking into the facts before you write a book. This movie will most likely have Bonnie working the streets when she meets Cyde. Makes me sick.
Again, David, Jeff Guinn does not “turn Bonnie into a prostitute,” as you so gently put. He merely offers up the idea that it could very well have been a side occupation that Bonnie chose to earn extra cash in a time when it was common of good-looking poor girls and getting an honest job was not easy. Your exaggeration of his speculation is appauling. And, honestly, so what if Bonnie Parker was a prostitute for a period of time in her life? It was not uncommon during her era and it does not make her any less of a person if she was. Instead of accusing Guinn of not fact-checking, maybe you should read more carefully instead of jumping to conclusions and reading only what you want to see.