If they remade this, and you were in charge of casting, who would you pick to play the Audrey Hepburn role of Susy Hendrix?
My pick would be either Famke Janssen, Vera Farmiga, Natalie Portman, or Milla Jovovich.
Winona Ryder I think she kind of looks like Audrey Hepburn
sharefor the record no one can ever replace audrey...or become the next audrey hepburn
shareSCARLETT JOHANSSON. The character would need to portray a sweet, trusting vulnerability. I think this young actress could nail the part.
share...facepalm.
you see? you see what i am saying?
no backsearching allowed...name one starring role this "name of the day" has had....
I have backtraced, and frankly find not one role i could recall, even when i could recall the film...when Ms. Hepburn stepped into this role, she already had an amazing history under her belt...while I admire your all-caps enthusiasm, I doubt that this person has the acting chops to remake this film, and, regardless, could not make a film better than the original.
the scene where Ms. Hepburn douses the lights...the fear we feel, for her, in the dark of the theater...i am sorry, but these modern "actresses" just can't measure up.
Maybe not an American actress... how about Rachel Weisz?
shareGo for authenticity...have Marlee Matlin play Suzy. Why should she have to be a scrawny, young chick?
shareMarlee Matlin would work, if Suzy were deaf rather than blind. lol
They're eating her! And then they're going to eat me! Ohhh myy GAAAAAAAAWWWWD!!!!
It would have to be someone who looks fragile, but isn't inside. ScarJo is too worldly. It would be a great role for someone up and coming like Lily Collins, since you can easily get a big name to play Roat.
shareGo for authenticity...have Marlee Matlin play Suzy. Why should she have to be a scrawny, young chick?
Jodie Foster comes to mind for her strength and intelligence. Her character in Silence of the Lambs gets into a similar situation also her Panic Room character. Audrey Hepburn was seperb.
shareThere was a "filmed play" version on HBO in the early 80's...
...Katherine Ross had the Hepburn role.
Stacy Keach played Roach and...I don't know if this was in the original Broadway version but...as he talked to Suzy sitting at the table near the end, he put on lipstick and ladies' earrings!
The other roles were cast with unknowns.
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A Broadway revival of a few years back had Marisa Tomei as Suzy and Quentin Tarantino(!) as Roat.
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The original Broadway play had Lee Remick as Suzy and Robert Duvall as Roat.
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I would agree with you if they did do a remake.
Wait until Dark was remade Jodie Foster could make a good Susie. I would change the title so it not an obvious remake, maybe more rooms in the apartment, maybe an house instead.
Age Gloria a bit,making her at sixteen, so it is not so strange for Susie to send her out to wait for husband Sam at the bus terminal in mid evening, I am guessing it passed 7 or 8.
There just isn't anyone who can do this anymore...no one "famous"...today's "actresses" are just cartoons with tits....there aren't any actresses anymore.
No, this wasn't Ms. Hepburn's best role, but it was still light years beyond what...oh my, I can not name any actress in the last 5 to ten years!...not an actress who was great, but JUST ANY actress....I can't name an actor for that matter...
no one makes films anymore...sure, they make "movies", movies that are like the thrill ride that the carnival brings to empty lots....go ride "The Zipper"!...funnest ever!...
but we don't recall it, when the carnival is gone. (the zipper is prolly a bad example...that's an amazing ride with a deep following, of which i am a part of....but you get the point)
There isn't anyone that can remake or replace this. Anyone who does will pale in comparison. Films of this type are almost dead. When youtube matures (and it's going to happen in the next few days, figuratively speaking), film will be dead....youtube has amazing artists, to be sure, but their art is bite size...
this film is a meal. and it's like won't ever be seen again. No one has the skill to replace Ms. Hepburn. No director has the skill to re-film this story. No editor has the skill to finalize this movie, and no audience has the...humanity...to watch this again...
America is a crowd of idiots, who only see things in 3D now. Actors and actresses are admired for their tits and asses, on both genders, if you get my meaning. Not one person can name a director of the past 5 movies they have seen, and when they can, it brings peals of disgusted laughter (Roland Emmerich? Michael Bay? only people who know what IMDB is even know these names...the others don't care who the director is, just the star). We just don't have the attention span, and don't have the sophistication, to enjoy real stories anymore.
This movie also could not be remade because today's america does not allow a female star without a male lead that "saves" her...so sorry, "women's lib" but feminism has become a joke....i love women, and the stunning power they hold, but american cinema has *beep* on women in the last 10 years, producing caricatures of strong women when they tried to address modern attitudes and desires (um...hold on...am trying to think of a female lead that i would regard as strong in the last 10 years...
um...ok. i got nothing),
and reducing women to trophies and idiots when they couldn't, or, worse, foils or vessels for badness (the one that immediately jumps to mind is Forrest Gump's "Jenny", who, in an allegory of America spanning 3-4 decades, experiences everything bad compared to Gump's experiencing everything good). Look what happens to a strong woman in Tarantino's :Inglorious Bastards". Choked to death in an off-scene room, and never redeemed. Look at our prescious "Avatar"...the "woman" is merely something to inspire and encite the male lead. She appears to be very powerful, but has no power, in the end.
to sum up, enjoy this movie, as is...we can't do it again, anymore than we could make wooly mammoth stew...some things just don't exist anymore...
I'm happy to say that I remember the names of the directors of the last five movies I saw:
Wait Until Dark - Terence Young
A Cold Wind in August - Alexander Singer
Love in the Afternoon - Billy Wilder
The Journey - Anatole Litvak
Baby Doll - Elia Kazan
"Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
"Why do you find it so easy?"
"It's never BEEN easy!"
Unfortunately, you are absolutely right. The swill that comes out of Hollywood, and the pathetic excuses we have for actors & actresses, is enough to gag a maggot. Remaking this classic would be a disaster, and the best hope would be that they would make a carbon copy with some not-too-disgusting players.
What they would probably do would be just like they did to Rollerball -- just steal the title and the basic background action, and botch up the rest horribly. I don't know whether the write and director had just never seen the original, or were perhaps just too dumb to understand it.
Of course any modern remake of Wait Until Dark would have to have a lot more blood & gore, not to mention the obligatory tit-and-ass shots and lots of copulation.
One suspects the whole deterioration is because back in the day, movies were made for adults. Now, they're mostly made for kids, and childhood seems to extend until about age 30 or so.
Movies, in many ways, reflect the society they were made for, and the downward trend is hardly surprising.
If I was put in charge of casting, I would quit because this film should not be remade. If it were a stage adaptation, then I could see Natalie Portman as a suitable choice.
"Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
"Why do you find it so easy?"
"It's never BEEN easy!"
Naomi Watts, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz or Camilla Belle. She'd have to be fascinating to watch like Ms. Hepburn and I find these actresses breath takingly beautiful as well as talented.
I wouldn't remake this, at all. Because, Hollywood would only ruin it by needlessly updating it. For example: turning Gloria (who, with all due respect to Suzie, really was acting like a bratty monster) into a pre-teen sociopath with the obsessive hots for Sam!
shareIf they did remake the film, they should go back and use the play as the shooting script. Don't butcher perfection like they did with the Hepburn version.
Here is my cast of "Wait Until Dark" if it were to be remade in 2010/2011.
Older Cast:
Mike: Josh Brolin or Tom Hanks
Carlino: James Gandolfini (hands down)
Roat: John Malkovich, Elias Koteas, Ed Harris, or Kevin Spacey
Susy: Meryl Streep (Hello!), Helen Hunt, or
Sam: Sam Shepard or Chris Cooper
Gloria: Chloe Moretz (did you see "Let Me In"? Man can this girl act!)
Younger Cast:
Mike: Jake Gyllenhaal or Ethan Hawke
Carlino: Joe D'Onofrio or Francis Capra
Roat: Joseph Gordon Levitt
Susy: Amy Adams, Kate Winslet, or Cate Blanchett
Sam: Casey Affleck
Gloria: would still cast Chloe Moretz
I agree with you about Joseph Gordon Levitt. I love Kate Winslet, however I'd prefer Keira Knightley for this role. She's physically comparable to Hepburn and combined with the accent, it would be a good fit. I'm surprised I didn't see Knightley's name yet in this thread.
People eat cotton candy. This is
better...it's made out of real cotton.