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BREAKING: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone helmer Don Scardino is in talks to go right back to work for New Line and helm Going In Style, the remake of the 1979 caper pic.
The original starred George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg as geriatrics who are bored with their lives and decide to knock off a bank. The remake is being scripted by Ted Melfi, who wrote and will direct Saint Vincent de Van Nuys with Bill Murray starring.
Donald De Line is producing on board to produce. Tony Bill, the producer on the original, will executive produce.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone stars Steve Carell, Jim Carrey and Steve Buscemi as Vegas magicians, bows March 15. Scardino’s repped by CAA and Parseghian/Planco.
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Awesome, “Going In Style” was great. It’ll be cool to the same movie with different actors. Inspired idea. They should do that with other movies. (Oh wait, that’s actually the only movies they make anymore, I forgot)
Waiddaminute. Haven’t they just remade this as STAND-UP GUYS?
Wait-a-minute, didn’t they remake this in the 80′s with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster called TOUGH GUYS and just change the bank to a train?
What is it with everyone making caper pics? They’re boring. The buzz on GAMBIT is that it’s awful. Why keep remaking these?
Don is one of the most stand up dudes in the business. Nothing but class and humble to boot.
Deserves every bit of success he has.
Kind of amazing that there’s no mention that Going in Style was Marty Brest’s directing debut. Sure, he directed Gigli, but he also directed Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, and Scent of a Woman.
Or that he wrote the original screenplay to boot!
AWESOME DON. Art
They should finish, the Going In Style remake… then space out 3 sequels over the next ten years… then re-reboot the franchise and keep putting in the child actors of the previous casts… so not only can there be no new ideas in hollywood, but the money can stay in the same 6 families too. That would be really inspiring. There should even be a “best reboot” category at the Oscars. And the studio executive that first said “I have a great idea” should have to accept the award and apologize on national tv for making a great living while sucking all creativity out of the process.