The Women - The Remake
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It's truly a traditional soap opera on film! I'm shocked that Proctor & Gamble (Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Another World, The Edge of Night) didn't get there first.Reza wrote:The project's less-than-$20 million budget has been financed by Inferno Entertainment, Picturehouse and soapmaker Dove, which will make "The Women" a major cog in a marketing campaign for its female-friendly brand.
"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
Daily Variety 5/30/07
'Women' finally ready for makeover
Eva Mendes, Annette Bening join cast
By MICHAEL FLEMING
After more than a decade of trying, Diane English has a solid cast
and an Aug. 6 start date for "The Women," the remake of the 1939
classic that she adapted and will direct.
Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra
Messing and Candice Bergen have either signed or are near committing
to star in a contemporized version of the George Cukor-directed film,
which Picturehouse will distribute domestically next year.
The project's less-than-$20 million budget has been financed by
Inferno Entertainment, Picturehouse and soapmaker Dove, which will
make "The Women" a major cog in a marketing campaign for its
female-friendly brand. The financing was pieced together with an
assist from the independent division of ICM, the agency that reps English.
Jagged Pictures partners Victoria Pearman and Mick Jagger will
produce with English and Inferno's Bill Johnson, who brokered deals
in Germany, Italy, Spain and other territories during Cannes.
Johnson's Inferno partner, Jim Seibel, will exec produce.
While numerous remake attempts were made at MGM before the title sold
with the MGM library to Ted Turner, the current version took root
right after Turner bought New Line and set up "The Women" as a
star/producing pairing of Julia Roberts and Ryan, with James L.
Brooks planning to direct (Daily Variety, April 18, 1994).
English signed on to write the script shortly thereafter, at a time
when she was the hottest writer on television thanks to "Murphy
Brown." English became attached as the project's director in 2001 and
is now in a position to reteam with that sitcom's star, Bergen.
The bitchy tone of the Clare Boothe Luce play lent itself perfectly
to a 1939 original film that starred Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford,
Rosalind Russell and others. Even though the property has always been
catnip to actresses, skeptics felt the film was locked in its
original period and would be difficult to remake. English, who
weathered several near starts and watched actresses come and go,
simply would not give up.
Her script maintains the arch spirit of the original, and the
all-female cast, but the gals aren't as relentlessly catty this time
around. Story follows a group of female friends when the one they
envied most discovers her husband's cheating on her.
'Women' finally ready for makeover
Eva Mendes, Annette Bening join cast
By MICHAEL FLEMING
After more than a decade of trying, Diane English has a solid cast
and an Aug. 6 start date for "The Women," the remake of the 1939
classic that she adapted and will direct.
Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra
Messing and Candice Bergen have either signed or are near committing
to star in a contemporized version of the George Cukor-directed film,
which Picturehouse will distribute domestically next year.
The project's less-than-$20 million budget has been financed by
Inferno Entertainment, Picturehouse and soapmaker Dove, which will
make "The Women" a major cog in a marketing campaign for its
female-friendly brand. The financing was pieced together with an
assist from the independent division of ICM, the agency that reps English.
Jagged Pictures partners Victoria Pearman and Mick Jagger will
produce with English and Inferno's Bill Johnson, who brokered deals
in Germany, Italy, Spain and other territories during Cannes.
Johnson's Inferno partner, Jim Seibel, will exec produce.
While numerous remake attempts were made at MGM before the title sold
with the MGM library to Ted Turner, the current version took root
right after Turner bought New Line and set up "The Women" as a
star/producing pairing of Julia Roberts and Ryan, with James L.
Brooks planning to direct (Daily Variety, April 18, 1994).
English signed on to write the script shortly thereafter, at a time
when she was the hottest writer on television thanks to "Murphy
Brown." English became attached as the project's director in 2001 and
is now in a position to reteam with that sitcom's star, Bergen.
The bitchy tone of the Clare Boothe Luce play lent itself perfectly
to a 1939 original film that starred Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford,
Rosalind Russell and others. Even though the property has always been
catnip to actresses, skeptics felt the film was locked in its
original period and would be difficult to remake. English, who
weathered several near starts and watched actresses come and go,
simply would not give up.
Her script maintains the arch spirit of the original, and the
all-female cast, but the gals aren't as relentlessly catty this time
around. Story follows a group of female friends when the one they
envied most discovers her husband's cheating on her.