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Which is More Criminal? That Will Smith Would Want to Remake Hitchcock?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (18)

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Will Smith is another one of those blockbuster divas, like Tobey Maguire, who will collect as many projects as his IMDB page will display and then sit on them, ensuring that no one else can do them (even if he never does). Seriously, check out his IMDB page — he’s attached to 25 projects, and that doesn’t even include the Flowers for Algernon project we reported on a few months ago. And he hasn’t made a movie in two years. He’s not even filming a movie right now.

Share the love, brother! And you know he’s got some of the very best projects available kept all snug and tight under his production shingle. You know why 90 percent of the produced movies in Hollywood are shit? Because Will Smith had the rights to all the good ones.

The latest? Latino Review is reporting that he’s now attached to star and produce in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion, where he’d take the role originally played by Cary Grant.

Suspicion is one of the few Hitchcock movies I haven’t seen, and from what I understand, it’s not his best (although it did garner him a Best Picture nomination in 1941, and Joan Fontaine a Best Actress Oscar). It’s about a shy young English woman who marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.

Suspicion is not the sort of remake I suspect too many people will get bent out of shape about (it’s not Vertigo or North by Northwest or anything), and since Hitchcock can’t really be remade, it’ll just be a matter of pilfering the script, updating it, and hiring a good director (but not so good that he would outshine Smith. Has anyone noticed that he has a tendency to pick directors who would not get billing over him?)

Anyway, that happened. And given the number of projects on his plate, for anyone seriously worried that Will Smith will remake Suspicion, think of it this way: There’s only about a one in 27 chance.










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Comments

My first First!

Anyways, Carey Grant talks too fast and women find him charming.

Will Smith raps and women find him charming.

Sounds perfect.

Posted by: Johnny Von Awesome at February 27, 2010 6:40 PM

Isn't the book "Flowers FOR Algernon"?... I hated the movie version "Charley", or whatever it was called... Pretty good book, though...

Anyhow, Will Smith is no Cary Grant. Well...maybe in one respect...

Posted by: mistral at February 27, 2010 7:34 PM

How will they blow up the Whitehouse with that script? Or fit in a jellyfish? Sounds dumb.

Posted by: Xtreme at February 27, 2010 9:05 PM

I'm no Will Smith fan, that's for sure, but your piece has a few too many unwrangled bits of info and typos for it to have much credibility.

Posted by: karen at February 27, 2010 10:37 PM

sss

Posted by: s at February 28, 2010 9:48 AM

Really? This isn't actually happening with him in the lead unless they completely rewrite it. The whole premise is that the Cary Grant character is so charming he can talk himself out of any number of increasingly horrific offenses against his new rich wife. I don't buy him as a threatmantic man. I just don't.

A remake has potential (tighten the screenplay, better justify some of the character actions, give a great actress a nice flashy showpiece), but not with Will Smith in the lead.

Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2010 12:32 PM

I'm one of the few who would be bent out of shape about a Suspicion remake starring Will Smith. The premise requires the male lead to be charming, which Smith can do, but believable as a potential murderer. Not a nice "I have to do this for the good of society" murderer, either...an actual "maybe I'll kill three people today" murderer. I've never seen anything from Smith that makes me think he can create that kind of tension.

Suspicion is one of my favorite Hitchcock movies, and a remake with the right actor/director/scriptwriter has the potential to be great. Will Smith is not that actor.

Posted by: lb at February 28, 2010 1:46 PM

I'M one of the ones who is motherfucking bent out of shape about this. we are now one cokeheaded starfucking bad decision away from the day will smith is to be jimmy stewart in vertigo. that's the day i pull a madeline elster and throw myself into the san francisco bay.

Posted by: mj at February 28, 2010 3:46 PM

The original is a very good movie up until the ending, which is horrible. I'll spare the details for those who haven't seen it.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at February 28, 2010 4:20 PM

I can see how this will come out ...

Will Smith rides a giant spider (named Carlton) to the premier of "Will Smith Deserves More Suspicion (in 3-D)". Coyly, he is trundled along the red carpet in a wheelchair, pushed by his Kara-spawn still clad in his not-a-karate uniform. Smith deflects questions about his next project.

Ralph Macchio appears in the theater enterance, blocking their way.

"You have offended my family, and you have offended the Karate Temple, which is not Kung-Fu, dammit."

Supported by the ghosts of Hitchcock, Asimov & Pat Morita, Macchio proceeds to kick the crap out of Smith, Jazzy Jeff & their giant spider car.

Well, I can dream, right?

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at February 28, 2010 5:43 PM

If Will Smith plays the Cary Grant role, who's going to play Beaky (Nigel Bruce's character)?

Posted by: BWeaves at February 28, 2010 8:32 PM

And who, pray tell, is going to play "man mailing letter?" Nobody plays "man mailing letter" better than Alfred Hitchcock.

Posted by: BWeaves at February 28, 2010 8:33 PM

And who, pray tell, is going to play "man mailing letter?" Nobody plays "man mailing letter" better than Alfred Hitchcock.

Obviously it's Taylor Lautner.

Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2010 8:38 PM

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Posted by: Jim at February 28, 2010 9:34 PM

Will Smith is the man!

Posted by: Littlejon2001 at February 28, 2010 9:44 PM

Suspicion was alreayd remade in the 1980s with Anthony Andrews in the Cary Grant role. I'm not so sure I hate this. If Will Smith wants to give it a bash, why not? Lesser actors have ruined re-makes of classic films: have you seen Harrison Ford trying to be Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina?

Posted by: PaddyDog at March 1, 2010 9:29 AM

My own (alleged) pet peeve is Antonio Banderas sitting on 'The Sparrow' by Mary Doria Russell. Fish or cut bait, amigo!

Posted by: periscope at March 2, 2010 6:24 PM

Will Smith is publicly regarded as the most successful actor making films these days and is definetely one of mine. His films have an amazing average gross of $127,145,449 million dollars, my favorite films he has stared in are, Independence Day, Hancock, Men in Black, I Am Legend.

Posted by: Mario Lastufka at June 24, 2010 7:09 AM