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Pink Pens "Rotten Scoundrels" Remake
By Garth Franklin
Thursday, September 25th 2008 12:07am
MGM has hired writer-director Steve Pink ("Accepted") to script a remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" says The Hollywood Reporter.
Itself a remake of the 1964 film "Bedtime Story" with Marlon Brando and David Niven, the Frank Oz-directed 'Scoundrels' starred Steve Martin and Michael Caine as mirror-opposite conmen competing to scam money from a seemingly guileless American woman and banish each other from their South of France hunting ground.
The new incarnation will be updated for a contemporary time and Pink, who also co-wrote "High Fidelity" and "Grosse Pointe Blank", is working out how to make their actions credible whilst still behaving in totally outrageous and absurd ways.
The project joins a string of remakes that MGM has in the works including "Red Dawn," "RoboCop," "Poltergeist" and "Fame".
By Garth Franklin
Thursday, September 25th 2008 12:07am
MGM has hired writer-director Steve Pink ("Accepted") to script a remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" says The Hollywood Reporter.
Itself a remake of the 1964 film "Bedtime Story" with Marlon Brando and David Niven, the Frank Oz-directed 'Scoundrels' starred Steve Martin and Michael Caine as mirror-opposite conmen competing to scam money from a seemingly guileless American woman and banish each other from their South of France hunting ground.
The new incarnation will be updated for a contemporary time and Pink, who also co-wrote "High Fidelity" and "Grosse Pointe Blank", is working out how to make their actions credible whilst still behaving in totally outrageous and absurd ways.
The project joins a string of remakes that MGM has in the works including "Red Dawn," "RoboCop," "Poltergeist" and "Fame".
