I see with some displeasure that Hollywood has made a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, which is one of my favorite movies, but for all the wrong reasons. (Cliff Notes: it exposes how vacuous, self-important and thoroughly unnecessary the so-called fashion “industry” really is. Ditto The Player, which does the same for the movie business.)
On that note, let’s play a little game. Assume that Hollywood / Netflix / Amazon / whoever is going to make a sequel to a well-known classic movie. Feel free to comment on which movie they’d pick, and how inappropriately they’d cast the thing.
Here are a couple-three suggestions, just to prod the creative juices:
- Casablanca 2, starring Tyler Perry as Rick and Rebel Wilson as Ilsa;
- Thelma & Louise 2, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Thelma and Whoopi Goldberg as Louise;
- Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 2, starring Rob Schneider as Butch and Don Cheadle as Sundance.
Yes, I know how T&L and BC ended. The premise for both is: They Survived! (Yeah, I know, ridiculous. So are most sequels.)