Will Smith and Kevin Hart will star in and produce a remake of the 1987 road comedy “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” for Paramount Pictures.
The original “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” was directed by John Hughes, and starred Steve Martin and the late John Candy as a pair of mismatched businessmen trying to get home to Chicago for Thanksgiving in the face of a variety of travel disasters.
The remake will be a modern update of the original, with Smith and Hart playing characters who are forced to team up to tackle travel obstacles to get home to their loved ones.
Hart’s HartBeat Productions and Smith’s Westbrook Studios are developing the remake. Aeysha Carr (“Brooklyn 99”) is set to pen the screenplay, marking her feature writing debut. Hart and Smith will produce the film alongside Westbrook Studios co-president and head of motion pictures Jon Mone and HartBeat’s president of film and television Bryan Smiley. [Reply]
Show will be boring as fuck. It’s way easier to travel now than in the early 80s.
For real though. When that movie hits you in the feels it hits you. To their credit Smith and Hart are really good. But there is no way they’ll be able to pull off what Candy did walking away from Dropping Martin off.
But they may do something different. It’s going to have to be pretty contrived to lose both of their phones and have some plot device to keep them away from borrowing anyone’s phone, not having any internet or not being able to stop by a Verizon store or whatever.
Seriously. It’s way easier now than it was then. [Reply]
Of course, because they have to continue the trend of taking stories/movies with previously white actors or characters and add color to the cast to make it modern and PC.
I'm a fan of both Smith and Hart, but come on. [Reply]
Originally Posted by OKchiefs:
Of course, because they have to continue the trend of taking stories/movies with previously white actors or characters and add color to the cast to make it modern and PC.
I'm a fan of both Smith and Hart, but come on.
Wait until you see what they did with the 'those aren't pillows' scene, . . . hint, it starts with brunch and ends with a fixer-upper pied-a-terre in The Village . . . [Reply]
I just don't these two actors touching the comedic brilliance or chemistry of John Candy and Steve Martin, nor having the heart that John Hughes injected into the movie. For a guy who was mostly known for making teen movies at the time(though most of them are really great movies on their own right), he sure did a great job with Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. [Reply]
Originally Posted by OKchiefs:
Of course, because they have to continue the trend of taking stories/movies with previously white actors or characters and add color to the cast to make it modern and PC.
I'm a fan of both Smith and Hart, but come on.
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
The one thing is Hart by himself will make it funnier than that ghost busters schlock.
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Wait until you see what they did with the 'those aren't pillows' scene, . . . hint, it starts with brunch and ends with a fixer-upper pied-a-terre in The Village . . .
Nice....that rumor seems to never die! :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by OKchiefs:
Of course, because they have to continue the trend of taking stories/movies with previously white actors or characters and add color to the cast to make it modern and PC.
Just for reference, Planes, Trains and Automobiles cost $30 million to make and pulled in only $49 million at the box office, which is absurdly low considering it was released on Thanksgiving and had a theatrical run of 58 total weeks. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
Just for reference, Planes, Trains and Automobiles cost $30 million to make and pulled in only $49 million at the box office, which is absurdly low considering it was released on Thanksgiving and had a theatrical run of 58 total weeks.
So if it wasn’t successful, why remake it? [Reply]