Cast a Movie Remake of At Long Last Love!

[MrMidwest]

Do you think this movie could work with a different cast? It seems like the problems with the film had less to do with the script and more to do with the casting and recording the musical numbers live on the set.

Brooke Carter: Amy Adams
Michael Oliver Pritchard III: James Marsden (with a moustache)
Kitty O'Kelly: ?
Johnny Spanish: ?
Elizabeth: ?
Rodney James: ?

[CarlosAlberto]

I just watched this on Netflix last week. I could see Gwyneth Paltrow in the Cybill Shepherd role.

[WOSQ]

Some sleeping dogs are better left asleep...

[henrikegerman]

"Do you think this movie could work with a different cast?"

Hard to say as I've never been able to get past the first ten minutes of the original.

"It seems like the problems with the film had less to do with the script and more to do with the casting and recording the musical numbers live on the set."

I'm more than willing to take you at your word as long as I don't have to watch another minute of the original. More to the general point, I think a nostalgic musical comedy movie using that score could be fun.

Brooke Carter: "Amy Adams"

by all means!

Michael Oliver Pritchard III: "James Marsden (with a moustache)"

ok, but how about Corey Stoll (Woody Allen's adorable Hemingway in Midnight in Paris) or Lee Pace? (More dashing leading man than pretty boy is needed!) Of course, there's always Ewan McGregor.

Kitty O'Kelly: CZJ (much prefer her musically on film than on stage), although it would be so nice to see Toni Collette or Jane Krakowski - see who's available and how much she's asking! But isn't it time we saw Collette or Krakowski in an all out musical movie???!!!!????

Johnny Spanish: Antonio Banderas

Elizabeth: Harriet Harris, of course!

Rodney James: Edward Hibbert, without a doubt!

[Mr Roxy]

Why remake a classic I ask you?

[SeanMartin]

A remake's fine, but it'll need more nudity and more things blowing up.

[MrMidwest]

It might actually work better on stage. Any casting ideas?

[Playbilly]

Better as a stage production, maybe. More receptive audience.

[MrMidwest]

Who's a director who could make it breeze across the stage? Tommy Tune? Susan Stroman? John Rando?

I think the group numbers in the movie work better than the solo songs. They have a certain energy and playfulness to them. Whatever you may dislike about the film, it's undeniable that the costumes are incredible.

Friendship:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8EQn5ZAQ1k
Well Did You Evah?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM9MH5M3uTw

[GavestonPS]

I don't think the cast is so bad. Granted the two leads aren't much, but successful film musicals have been made with worse. And the supporting case is excellent.

But as much as I loved his earlier films, Bogdanovich was simply at sea with a musical. Sure, a Tommy Tune might do a successful stage version, but that can be said of any collection of Cole Porter songs.

[MrMidwest]

One of the best parts of the film:
When other friendships have been forgate, ours will still be great!

[jayinchelsea]

an unwatchable mess that was doa and needs to stay dead

[MrMidwest]

"Everybody hated Bogdanovich's homage, a trivial story slotted round some Cole Porter songs. It's an indulgent movie - Peter and Cybill having a lark with their friends - but it's also a neat parody of '30s musicals, with sets nodding to Van Nest Polglase, Hillerman taking the Eric Blore part with unerring restraint, Reynolds hamming away as if he's Cary Grant crossed with Muhammad Ali, the much-maligned Cybill Shepherd an icy honey-blonde in the Tracy Lord tradition (the Grace Kelly, not the Katharine Hepburn version). Better still, the brittle, clipped world of Porter's songs is perfectly evoked. It may be a movie we'll come back to later and find we all like it."

http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/78274/at-long-last-love.html

[MrMidwest]

Cybill is a better singer than Marion Cotillard or Rosario Dawson. She was just born too early to benefit from post-recording tweaking. (And that's show biz..kid.)