Casablanca

[skyvue]

The acting and direction are great in CASABLANCA, but the writing is every bit as key to the movie's success. It's an amazing script, with memorable lines coming at the audience at a fast and furious pace.

Also, to describe CASABLANCA as just another picture doesn't really tell the story. The studio heads certainly came to realize they had something special, and producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz were certainly members of the studio's "A" team at the time. Bogart was a star seriously on the rise, and big things were expected of Ingrid Bergman.

So while it may not have been hyped on the scale of GONE WITH THE WIND, a mere crank-it-out programmer it decidedly was not, not by a long shot.

 

[flat-top]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/04/casablanca-sequel-producer_n_2073419.html

 

[countryclubjoe]

Casablanca is one of the all time greats.

I highly recommend.

Best regards
CCJ

 

[Feraud]

Jeez that script sounds Awful!

 

[LizzieMaine]

I imagine if they do end up producing it, there'll likely be a lot of rewrites. Probably Rick will end up with an armored battlesuit.

 

[RBH]

Or he will battle the Nazis over an old chest full of sand....
oh wait thats been done.

 

[TM]

Maybe it will be a musical! Or better yet, animated and in 3D!

What a stupid idea.

Tony

 

[dhermann1]

I think they might already have made a sequel to "Casablanca" (without realizing it). It's called "Mr Arkadin", with Orson Welles.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048393/

I've often thought I'd like to see a remake of "Mr Arkadin", with maybe Bruce Willis as the disillusioned soldier of fortune (tho I think he's probably too old now), and maybe Michael Caine in the Welles part. And done with slavish accuracy to the 1955 period styles.

 

[dhermann1]

I like thinking of films that are unwitting sequels to each other (there's a topic for a thread!). I've always thought of "The Sand Pebbles" as a sequel to the opera "Madame Butterfly".

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Maybe it will be a musical! Or better yet, animated and in 3D!

What a stupid idea.

Tony

Even worse, a Baz Luhrman musical. :doh:

 

[dhermann1]

Just read the article. Gak! It would be set in the 60s! Double gak! Nothing good can come of this. Doesn't anybody remember that wonnnnnnderful sequel to GWTW? Triple gak.

 

[Mahagonny Bill]

Even worse, a Baz Luhrman musical. :doh:

Ricks Can-Can-Can American! Can-Can-Can American!

Seriously, I hope this never ever happens. I can not think of a movie LESS in need of a sequel than Casablanca. It is perfect just the way it is.

 

[Blackthorn]

What a train wreck of an idea.

 

[dhermann1]

Plus, Casablanca would not be Casablanca without the great looming fact of the War hanging over everybody's life. No war, and it just becomes another story.