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Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 7:25 AM on April 17, 2008
The Anti-Idea Train rolled inexorably closer to derailing today with word that Orlando Bloom is among principals involved in remaking Le Cercle Rouge, the great Jean-Pierre Melville heist film from 1970. We don't know what flip-flopped our stomachs more: the idea of the milquetoast Bloom slipping into the role of brooding French icon Alain Delon; or maybe the thoroughly incompatible Hong Kong crime auteur Johnnie To inheriting Melville's modest reins; or maybe it's just the mere thought that an English-language do-over flatly titled Red Circle will enter the stolid, stinking cosmos of Things That Make Us Sob Bitterly. We expected more from Gallic production giants Studio Canal, whose $40 million budget also covers co-stars Liam Neeson, Chow Yun-Fat and evidently enough insurance to cover the souls of all involved. Bob Weinstein would be sooooo proud. [THR]
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Juancho
Posted 7:50 AM 17/4/08
Well, I believe Studio Canal owns the original outright, so, Paris-Out of Ideas should be a new tag around here.
Juancho
CourageousCoward
Posted 7:41 AM 17/4/08
Dammit! If they had chosen instead to do "Le Ballon Rouge" we could have watched in delight as the gang of balloons decended on Bloom's ass and carried him away for good!
CourageousCoward
Wendy_Kroy
Posted 8:54 AM 17/4/08
Alain Delon was one of the most beautiful men in cinematic history. But now when I think of him I just recall that reference in The Kid Stays in the Picture (I think) where Robert Evans committed to one facelift too many because he was completely obsessed with Delon's most recent surgical freshening-up.
Wendy_Kroy
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 12:56 PM 17/4/08
Can it really be that bad if Katherine Heigl is NOT in it?
Little Mintz Sunshine
raincoaster
Posted 4:36 PM 17/4/08
Okay, okay, but Chow Yun-Fat redeems any amount of baggage in my view. Besides, Bloom = Pretty.
raincoaster