Time for a re-make?

My heart tends to sink every time I read on one of these IMDb sites the tedious call for a remake. In this case, though, it would be more difficult than normal to remake what many people, including me, regard as a classic.

The book is largely set in 1900, the year of Leo's thirteenth birthday, which means that he was born in 1887. As the book was published in 1953,the adult Leo would have been 65 or 66, still relatively active and it would have been perfectly feasible for him to visit Marian, by then around 74 or 75. Even when the film was made (1970) such an event would have been just about possible, though rather unlikely.

Now, however, both would have been long dead so even the 'modern' parts would have to be set around fifty years ago and themselves filmed as period pieces. Just think what that would do to those contributors to the Goofs section who seem incapable of realising that the modern parts were just that and that Michael Redgrave was in fact the much older Leo!