the next michael caine remake will be the man who would be king. bryan brown is playing michael caine, michael caine is playing sean connery, and sean connery is playing golf

A Zulu remake would be quite likely, Colin, but not unless they can find a way to make the ending more, y’know, UPBEAT.

Branagh has a tendency to try to solve problems by putting a lot of ENERGY up on screen — this is at it’s worst in his Frankenstein, where the burly camera moves get irksome within minutes. I was kind of on Dead Again’s side until the slo-mo climax. And Ken was a terrible detective hero. Em wasn’t really suited to either of her roles. The idea of the same actors appearing in the flashbacks was a bit of a cheat — and it came from Ken.

i do hope Ruiz gets to make his Scottish Jekyll & Hyde — but that shonky-but-popular recent TV version may stand in his path.

Segal: And then they told me they were going to kill me.

Guiness: Oh. And did they succeed?

However it was Ruiz who stepped in and cleaned evryone’s clock when it came to Marcel Proust

However it was just too uch for “Mary Shelley’s” Frankenstein (she should have sued!), the film that puts ‘bomb’ in bombastic!

I quite like the original Sleuth but have so far steered away from the remake because everything about it seems a little off the mark from the performances to the sets, which suggests that there wasn’t much understanding of what made the original dated but special as a twisty time capsule set in a house full of bric a brac that made it seem like the costume changes and play acting was inevitable from the amount of stuff lying around for the characters to play with! I’m sure I’ll catch up with the remake soon though to see what it turns out like.

The next Michael Caine remake? - My money’s on Zulu with Caine as the african chief!

I love The Collection, which is where I formed the impression that Alan Bates is the perfect Pinter actor. But Larrio is great in it, and everyone else too. My favourite Lar perf is in Bunny Lake is Missing, but his Pinter ranks high too.

I ought to get myself a copy of Pinter’s Proust script, written for Losey. I love his Victory, written for Lester.

The sets are quite funny in that they ape the Ken Adame we’re familair woth from the Bond films rather than the Ken who did the Mankiewicz and Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon.

As for the sexuality I wouldn’t call it “ambiguous” at all. The entire set-up hinges on the all-important question “Who will make the first pass?” Pinter is far wiser than any of us when it comes to sexuality in all it’s multifarious wonder. Be sure to get ahold of the video of the magnificent TV remake (it was a TV play to begin with) of The Collection, directed by Michael Apted and starring Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier, Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren. (Shot sometime in the 70’s I think.) It has far and away my favorite Olivier performance. I particularly love the relish with which he delivers the speech in which he explains to Bates how he met McDowell: “He’s a slum boy you see. That’s how I met him. I happened to be in a slum one day and. . .there he was!”