Why not remake this movie?
With efren reyes playing paul newman's role, and shia lebeuff in tom cruise's role.
shareWhy remake this movie?
That's the better question and there is no logical answer.
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While I absolutely love the "Magician" and consider him the greatest natural pool player I have ever seen, let's just say his command of the English language [unlike his utter mastery of pool] is...challenged, to say the least. Trust me. :)
So, this would be a non-starter. ;)
Though I am still hoping one day to see another "real" pool movie like "The Hustler" and, to a lesser degree, "CoM".
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A better idea would be to make a movie that takes place 26 years later with the same characters from the color of money.
With Cruise now in the role of Paul newman as an aging champion teaching a new star the ropes.
Not sure yet who i would cast as a new pool star.
That's something I had thought of as well.
The Huster was released in 1961. Twenty-five years later the Color of Money was released...in 1986.
It's now 2012. More time has passed since TCOM than had passed since The Hustler when TCOM was made.
I realize that these two films were based on books by Walter Tevis, who is now deceased and did not right a sequel to TCOM. But TCOM really bore no similarity to Tevis' book. There in fact was no Vincent character in it at all. I'd like to see a good movie about pool made in this era, and hopefully it will be one that will display shot-making and position play on the table a bit more realistically than TCOM.
It's not a bad idea (there are far worse in Hollywood these days), but I'm not sure pool is even as popular as it was last century. The biggest pool hall in my city closed a few years back. Also, I don't think we need the same story as TCOM, it would need to be different to be worth doing I think. Sort of like the 2 Wall Street movies, the newer one was pretty different from the original, even though they had the same general plot.
The one good thing that would come from this is we'd finally have some closure as to who won that last game and what happened afterward.
The one thing I wish we'd seen more of in TCOM was more cons. The thing Vincent couldn't get around was that you could make more money losing than by winning, but he wouldn't listen because his goal was just to be the best. He couldn't grasp the idea of a con, until the end. So, I think that could be a better angle for a sequel/remake... make it all about cons and let the up-and-comer actually realize that the cons are where the big money is. From there you could write in a couple twists like the new guy ends up conning Vincent, but then reveal that Vincent had been conning the new guy the whole time and knew he was being conned. It might be a little cliche, it's certainly not original, but I think that would be better than Vincent getting conned and that being the end. By this point, he'd be too smart to let that happen.
Anyways, not a bad idea. Not sure if it would work nowadays, but I'd certainly watch it.
You can't just remake a Scorsese movie.
Let's be honest about it, good though this film is, it probably wouldn't have been made had it not been for The Hustler and the presence of Paul Newman playing Fast Eddie again. In other words, having anyone else playing Eddie just wouldn't work - he IS Eddie Felsen.
shareremake? or they could make a Color of Money movie which is true to the Tevis book and not a completely made up sequel.
shareAll good points except the remake question the OP asks about..Paul Newman passed on so it could be Tom Cruise's role to be a mentor to another upstart or else just have him con people for the thrill the only problem with that option is that people would know who he was much like Grady Seasons was in TCOM that the average pool playing Joe who knows anything about the best wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole for a money game.
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