Don’t “play it again” Madonna
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Hot Momma
File this one under probably a bad idea. Madonna reportedly wants to revive her luke warm acting career with a daring remake of the classic film Casablanca. The rock hall of fame pop singer is said to believe the film will make her reputation as an actress, after a string of high-profile flops such as Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence and Swept Away, her much-derided 2002 collaboration with husband Guy Ritchie.
A source at a major Hollywood studio that was recently approached by the 49-year-old star said:
“Madonna and her people are testing the waters to see if this is the right vehicle for her and if a major studio will get behind the project.”
The singer, is supposedly planning to play the lead role of Ilsa Lund, which originally made a star of Ingrid Bergman. Bergman was in her 20s when she played Ilsa and Madonna is nearly 50. In the 1942 original, Bergman starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, who played Rick Blaine, a cynical bar owner in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in the early days of the Second World War. Ilsa is torn between love for her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, and her ex-lover Rick. For the modern remake Madonna plans to set it in war-torn Iraq.
The Hollywood studio source continued with:
“She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all time.”
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oh no no no no NO NO NO!
This would be…. horrific.