Greta Gerwig To Helm ‘Little Women’ At Sony; Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Timothee Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan In Talks

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Taking my old roles now. Not cool, M.

an all white and straight cast. How boring.

Um, are you at all aware of the story of Little Women?

Emma Stone a very old Jo or a young Marmee?

Meryl as Aunt March?

Maybe a film would be less slow moving than the recent BBC version.

r3 Read the book, dumbass.

R6 That's what I'M sayin! Ignorant fuck at R3.

Didn't Sony learn anything from the recent PBS production of Little Women? Oh, you didn't watch it? Well neither did anybody else.

God, when are we going to get some exciting, good creative originality y in US moviemaking?

Click click.

R3 is trolling or being sarcastic but people don't get it

Looks good!

I know some here hate Winona Ryder, but it would be difficult to improve on the 1994 version directed by Gillian Armstrong. Ryder isn't a perfect Jo, but she does well and the rest of the cast is perfect, including a very charming and appealing Christian Bale (and when was the last time you would use those words for one of his performances?).

Plus the marvelous location photography and beautiful score.

I tried watching the BBC version but it was mediocre.

Why the "Oh, god" OP? Did they not check with you first to get the perfect casting of specific individuals you'd approve? That's weird.

I like my Jo March the vocal fry, thanks.

Totally agree, R12 - Winona was fantastic, as was the direction, and the whole thing, really.

Let’s not forget about Claire Danes.

I agree r12 but since it's happening just wish Streep wasn't in it. All this talk about inclusiveness in Hollwood yet Meryl is still getting all the older woman parts. Not that the US has a lot of great actresses but come on.

How many roles did Kate and Miss June Allyson share?

R3 is correct about the age issue. The girls are teenagers in the story, and none of the actresses in the article are teenagers or believable as the mother of teenagers. They should be looking at main actresses in their teens and early twenties, and a fortyish Marmee.

Okay, Ronan passed as a teen in "Lady Bird", but Stone is 29 already and she'll be 30 by the time the cameras role! Bitch, please, a 30-year-old Jo will not do.

What do you bet they make Meryl the mom?

Seriously is this Little Women: The Golden Years? Why are they all so old?

Saoirse is a good choice, dunno about Emma, at least it wasn’t Jlaw.

Sounds intriguing, but I wish Laurie Metcalf got Meryl's role.

Still suffering from Streep fatigue enough already.

Why keep re-making the same story when it's been done perfectly well several times before. If Gerwig is so creative she should write something fresh and relevant..

Did someone lose my agent's phone number or something?

It's going to tank. But it's a good thing if it does. People need to take a second look at Gerwig's "directing talents". A reset would be a good thing for her, too.

Little Women: All Growed Up

Clare Danes is 39, old enough to play Marmee. That's the age range they should be looking at, early forties or able to pass as such, and that means people around Danes' age - Rachel McAdams, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Chastain, Amy Adams, Charlize Theron, etc.

I nominate Kate Winslet. She's always good.

know some here hate Winona Ryder, but it would be difficult to improve on the 1994 version directed by Gillian Armstrong. Ryder isn't a perfect Jo, but she does well and the rest of the cast is perfect, including a very charming and appealing Christian Bale (and when was the last time you would use those words for one of his performances?).

Plus the marvelous location photography and beautiful score.

I tried watching the BBC version but it was mediocre.

I like this movie when it came out, but I can no longer abide Susan Sarandon and want to throw something at my TV at the sight of her, so this one is off the table.

I didn't think the BBC version was so bad - the guy that played Laurie was pretty good and I thought Maya Hawke was actually serviceable as Jo. They changed some parts that took away from the story, like Beth's death scene, but given all the ugliness in the world, LW was sort of a sweet break from it all.

That said, this idea stinks; this bunch would be like some scenery chewing, over-dramatizing nightmare

In the name of gender equality, I think it would be good if they did an all-male version of Little Women.

Brian Dennehy as Daddy, Vin Diesel as tomboy Jo, Jeremy Renner as the one who dies, Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp as the other sisters. Christian Bale could reprise his role as Laurie and Jeremy Irons as the professor Jo marries.

R31 Ever heard of a book called Little Men? Jesus!

Maybe they ought to try one of the other books, when the sisters were older...Jo's Boys, Little Men...

jk, those books were awful.

I hated when they called him Teddy in the 1994 version.

And.....

SS at r1 I have so many scripts to read I did suggest they go back to you but they thought you looked too old.

Will this also look and feel like a glorified made for IFC channel film like Lady Bird?

It should get one nomination at least.

How many remakes do we need? Why don't they at least try to do the musical version instead?

I hope it bombs. I'm sick of Meryl and so is the rest of the world.

Tim O'Tay has to fake-romance another Oldster?

R34 he was alternately called Teddy and Laurie in the book.

Mary Astor was 43 when she was cast as Marmee in the 1949 film version.

R43 Meryl has to be Aunt March!

If not an all male version, what about a colour blind drag version with Rupaul as Marmee?

Kate Hepburn was the best Jo March. Best Mary Tyrone. Best Tracy Lord.

Who could play Aunt March? Maggie Smith? Can't think of a suitable elderly American actress.

And probably Christopher Plummer as Laurie's grandfather as all Plummers American contemporaries are dead.

If Tim O'Tay is about why not Armie as the prof? They could throw in a few lingering looks and maybe some skinny dipping for the pair........

If there was ever a Kate Hepburn role, it was Jo.

Meryl can't play Marmee - she's 20 years too old!

Kathy Bates as Aunt March? She's officially 70, and does grumpy no-bullshit well.

Gawd, some of you are thinking way, way too old, as are the casting agents! Meg, Jo, and Beth should be in their late teens or early twenties for real, Marmee should be late thirties to early forties, and Aunt March should be 70s, not 90s.

R45, Hepburn really works as Jo March--a New England tomboy playing a New England tomboy--that hyper, energetic quality of hers is the best thing about the early version. She gets Jo in a way no later performer has. Otherwise, my favorite LW cast is the Gillian Armstrong version--Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes and Christian Bale are all strong in their roles. Trini Alvarado's forgettable, but not bothersomely so. Winona Ryder's okay, but she doesn't embody the part the way Hepburn did.

Weirdest cast--June Allyson as Jo, Elizabeth Taylor as Amy in a blonde wig. Mary Astor, who was Marmee, was a bit snarky about the whole experience in her memoir. She got fed up playing "mothers for Metro"--she really enjoyed doing DL favorite Desert Fury though.

Meryl Streep will be almost 20 years older than Edna May Oliver was in 1933 when SHE played Aunt March to starchy sapphic perfection.

At least Sophia Coppola isn’t directing it, thank God.

They should cast it with the gals from "The Facts of Life." Tootie can be their faithful servant.

Well, in my dreams Elizabeth Hubbard would be Aunt March, but that won't happen in real life, so... Vanessa Redgrave.

Years ago, a possible film was mentioned about the women of the Watergate scandal. Gerwig could direct that. The movie would be outstanding. I think Meryl Streep was to portray Martha Mitchell.

Why is Gerwig recycling “Little Women”? There are so many true stories about inspiring women that could be produced.

Angela Lansbury should play Aunt March again and finally win that much longed-for Oscar, in addition to an Emmy for the PBS/BBC version. She was very good in the role but is she too old?

Another creatively bankrupt Hollywood idea. Who in the world needs yet another "Little Women"? Especially with Meryl Fucking Streep.

For all this new empowerment for women in Hollywood, apparently it didn't include creativity or new ideas.

Saoirse=Anne

Emma= Neely

Timothée=Jennifer

Meryl=Helen Lawson

Mamie=Beth

Grace=Meg

Louisa=Amy

Henry=Jo

M=Marmee

G=Aunt March

I hope Timmy doesn't play the tomboy daughter. With his delicate features, he would be terribly miscast.

Timothee would be a beautiful little woman.

Timothy could be an excellent Amy.

R38, ha ha ! I wanted to answer the same thing !

Sounds dull. A black Little Women would've been interesting. Like black Annie or black Steel Magnolias. Lupita Nyong'o as 'Jo.'

Would be interested if they had a trans character

Blacks, trans, gender neutrals. New England was never more exciting.

Sounds great. I am sure it will do well with that cast.

I think Meryl and Maggie Smith should go off to a desert Island for about 5 years.

Then instead of boring the rest of us, they can bore each other.

Maybe when they come back, it might be good to see them again.

Maybe. Perhaps. Or not.

Why are people so negative now? Sad

R67 They could bring a camera and film themselves, like Gilligan's Island meets Survivor. I would watch that.

Harriet Sansome Harris for Aunt March

Waspy White Girl Shit.

Is there a part for me?

Oh, oh ! I want the Little House on the Prairie version ! Anybody remembers that episode ?

How come the embittered mother never realised her daughter had her hair cut? Why do they explain very private family money problems in front of the whole school/village ?

How about Mary-Louise Parker as Marmie? I know she's about 10 years too old but she's a good actor and she's younger than Streep.

R72 AnneE: You have to wait for the sequel, "Little Women Go to France", then you can reprise your emotional role of Fantine and sing to them from the gutter.

None of those bitches or any other can perform an American classic like I did Our Town!

And Robby Benson ate my pussy during rehearsals to boot!

Is she still dating the smugly pretentious director? I bet he's bitter that she's received more acclaim than he ever has in his decades-long careerr.

Did Hal Holbrook have a contract with PBS to appear in every single televised play they broadcast through 5 decades?

[quote]or black Steel Magnolias

Great idea!

People will be happy to see Streep with Stone. You bitches are crazy with the constant keyboard complaining. Get off the rag and shut up

R15 Let’s not forget about Claire Danes.

And what of little Kirsten Dunst??

[quote]R52 They should cast it with the gals from "The Facts of Life." Tootie can be their faithful servant.

She has a name, you know. It's [italic]Hannah.

Ahem

LITTLE WOMEN has inspired a lot of bad book covers.

In this one, Beth (with the cat) looks like she's dying right out of the gate.

Bad misstep, Greta. Very bad.

[quote]Why is Gerwig recycling “Little Women”? There are so many true stories about inspiring women that could be produced.

Here's what's depressing about this to me (other than the fact that the world does NOT need another goddamn Little Women adaptation): Auteurship is extremely tough for female directors to maintain - look at the number of them who make a successful breakout film based on their own original scripts, then end up being directors for hire or directing for TV after their next film flops. Gerwig - whether or not you think she deserved it - received enormous acclaim for Lady Bird, and it feels like a squandered opportunity for her to use that cachet to do something as tired as a Little Women adaptation, when she could keep going with her own original stuff. (And yes, I know she wrote this adaptation.) There's also a long history of female directors having enormously successful first films that they wrote themselves, then choosing to adapt someone else's work for their next film - and it throws them off creatively for a long time, sometimes never to really recover. So many female directors would kill to be in her shoes, and she does this. It's boring and uninspiring.

Maybe despite the acclaim for Lady Bird this is best Greta is offered. There have always been very limited opportunities for female director's.

So I guess she hasn’t been offered to direct some superhero movie a la Wonder Woman.

Lady Bird sucked

She wrote the adaptation so clearly it’s what she wants to do, and one assumes it drew the actors because they want to help her achieve her vision. But I’m sure a bunch of cranky old gay men know best

Yes we do 91 thank you for acknowledging that.

Looking at the imdb page, Sarah Polley has a screenplay credit. She was also a hot director after "Away from Her", like Gerwig is now. I wonder why she is not directing, and also what is with every hot young female director having to do a new version of "Little Women"? Yes, I'm exaggerating, but we need another version like we need Pence as our next President

I agree that Danes was terrific in the '94 film, the best Beth of all.

The Hepburn film is very creaky and I find her mannered at times but she gets the tomboyish aspect very well. The 1949 version is not worth bothering with.

I hope Polley does a better job here than with the very overrated ALIAS GRACE, which drowned in all that voiceover narration. I hoped for better given her excellent work on AWAY FROM HER.

30 year old anorexic Emma Stone as Meg? Um, no. She may have been Beth or Amy 10 years ago.

They should wait for 5 years and cast her as Marmee.

Cate Blanchett as Marmee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Professor Bhaer.

or...change the story so that Jo marries Laurie and not that old fusty professor. Wouldn't that be a scream.

R87, exactly. You pretty well summed up what I’ve been feeling. It’s pretty difficult to follow up a big success with another just like it. I feel for her. It seems right that she’d stick to woman-centered works, but this is a bad misstep. There has to be some other work she could direct.

Personally, I love Sofia Coppola’s movies and think Gerwig should lean in that dicrection.

Anyone know where the Timothée thread is? I know there's one secretly out there somewhere

If Greta is at the helm it'll somehow end up being about herself. I bet she changes the setting to Sacramento.

How many times has “Little Women” been filmed? There are not only Hollywood movie versions, but TV movies and miniseries. There are so many other powerful stories about women to film and Gerwig choses “Little Women”. Why is she afraid to take risks?

Timothee will be the prettiest of the sisters; Amy (played by Ronan) will be wildly jealous and likely try to burn his i-Pad in fit of jealousy, though later will fall through a pond and drown, so it all works out since no one liked Amy and her little pig nose and ratty curls. Beth will be played by the chubby friend in Lady Bird and will likely die of gastric surgery gone horribly awry. Jo will find her dream job coaching ladies basketball at UT. And Meg will...well, Meg was always sort of boring so maybe she can move out early in a huff over having to wear an old gown to the rave.

Do you think it will flop or with that cast it´s gonna be a hit no matter how many times people have seen the story?

It will be successful due to big stars and timeless story. Probably a holiday film

Whether Gerwig makes it a good to great film remains to be seen

I don’t mind them remaking it since 94 version is stale

[quote]r103 Do you think it will flop or with that cast it´s gonna be a hit no matter how many times people have seen the story?

It will be new for some audiences. Even if they grew up with the Winona Ryder version around the house, people will want to bring their kids to the new one in the theater.

Streep is actually good casting for Aunt March. But if they’re thinking they can get away with making her Marmee, that will be ludicrous.

I’d like to see Ronan as Jo. Emma Stone is just too young for Marmee, but she’s really too old for one of the girls.

It's too bad we never meet the old army vet father in the script...Glennie would be perfect for that.

How do we feel about the Susan Dey TV version ?

We don’t remember it, r108.

Maybe she has an older cast because they will play prostitutes.

Streep is too old in real life to be Saoirse mother but audiences don’t care

People grew up with Winona Ryder and a lost kitten running around the house. You find them with cornstarch.

Laura Linney could do Marmee in her sleep and Ronan would be entirely believable as her daughter.

Susan Dey as Josephine 'Jo' March

Meredith Baxter Birney as Meg March

Eve Plumb as Elizabeth 'Beth' March

Ann Dusenberry as Amy March

Dorothy McGuire as Marmee March

William Schallert as Jonathan March

Greer Garson as Aunt Kathryn March

It is possible for a 45 year old woman to be a mom

Emma Stone is too old to play any of the daughters except for maybe Meg, and I can’t see her working as the “pretty and basic one who just wants to get married and be rich again”.

I don’t think audiences care about the actual ages of the actors. Its just a movie about sisters

I could have sworn the Susan Dey version was a miniseries and then a series that was quickly canceled. IMDb say it was only a hour show.

No it was a mini series

Little Women is a 1978 American television miniseries

Girls, girls...you're BOTH a mini series (1978) AND a short lived weekly series (1979).

Eve Plumb's Beth had died in the original, so they had to bring her back as "Cousin Lissa".

[quote]How about Mary-Louise Parker as Marmie? I know she's about 10 years too old but she's a good actor and she's younger than Streep.

HUH??

Mary-Louise Parker is a TERRIBLE actress! Her low-energy schtick is exhausting to watch too! Just LOUSY!

According to imdb, Meryl Streep is playing Marmee, Emma Stone is Meg and Ronan (can't spell her crazy first name) is Jo. If that can be believed, what weird casting! Streep is too old to play anything except Aunt March Meg is certainly not the focus of the story, and Stone, at 30, is also too old to play her. She might have made a good Jo....in 2008. And I don't find Ms. Ronan dream casting as Jo either.

Plus she's a lifelong anorexic. I don't want to put food in her mouth just for her to throw up again.

^^ re: Mary Louise Parker lobbying

What the hell does a girl have to do to get a part in this movie?

Audiences don't run to IMDB pages to look up ages. Get over it ladies.

The role of Hannah (the faithful, sooty-faced servant) has not yet been cast, Sally dear.

I will put in a word for you.

The version with Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder and Claire Danes and Kirsten Dunst and Christian Slater was beautifully made. Fuck this.

It's being made for modern audiences, many of whom have never seen the version from 24 years ago. Get over it

I'm fine with a remake, I suppose, but enough with Meryl. I can't stomach her anymore.

Audiences don't need to run to imdb pages to see the actresses' ages - they can see it on the screen! Streep will be 70 years old next year.

Left and right actresses are being cast for roles they are 20-30 years too old for but poor Barbra gets stoned for wanting to play Gypsy.

Would Greta throw some lines about menstruation?

This will be "Little Women" for the #metoo generation. Marmee (Streep) has raised her daughters not to kowtow to men or wait for any man to ask for dance. The March women will do as they please, thank you very much. Sisterhood!

Yeah - let them make the movie and stop complaining

R123 is correct. Stone might have been an okay Jo ten years ago, she does play awkward misfits well even if I've never seen her play a tomboy. But she's too old now.

And yes, the girls who play the March sisters really do have to be young, teenagers or early twenties, NOT thirty! Thirty year olds don't put on plays with their sisters in the attic or "come of age", and they can definitely cope when their Marmee leaves town. And in 1860 they don't work entry-level jobs and whine that they want to be writers, hell, they were lucky if they weren't grandmothers by that age.

Trini Alverado was late 20's when she played Meg.

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[quote]Anyone know where the Timothée thread is? I know there's one secretly out there somewhere

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Marmee should be someone in her early 40s at most. Like Reese Witherspoon, but less of a cutie-pie MILF. Like Jenna Fischer or Elizabeth Banks or Linda Cardellini.

Thank Christ they didn’t smoosh Jennifer Lawrence into this shit show.

WW for R139. On this note, stop asking about threads for this French lamb. DL is not the platform for him. Deal with it. And I agree with R140. Imagine JLaw in Emma’s place....ugh.

The Susan Dey mini series allowed more of the story to be showcased, but I always sensed that Meredith Baxter would have been better as Jo and Susan as the often flummoxed Meg.

Greta is making the same mistake that Sophia did with The beguiled . Remaking the classic with straight A list white actors is not where it's at in filmmaking.

The Clint Eastwood BEGUILED is hardly a classic. I watched it again recently and there's a fair amount of bad acting in it, much of it by the star.

No one cares about the ages

Couldn't Greta, "screenwriter" and "champion for women" come up with another story instead of using a story from a hundred years ago filmed multiple times?

A hundred and fifty years ago.

I agree that Meryl is tainted and shouldn't be in any other big women-themed films.

Is the "tomboy" going to be "transgender"? Is that why this film has to be made?

June Lockhart should play Aunt March.

So fucking dumb.

Anything Meryl Streep stars in should be boycotted.

Meryl is playing aunt March.

Yeah, what R153 said

Oh Dee Plorable, Streep is not tainted

Sorry, but a film about white girls is totally where it's at--the forced diversity of a Wrinkle in Time has limited appeal. I expect to see more diverse films--so more black films, more latino centered films--but the wedging a black family member just to be "diverse" feels contrived. Meanwhile, there's a quiet insurrection led by women in this country. Or not so quiet. Plenty of women will take their daughters to this film. Think of how successful Frozen was.

Part of the reason Little Women is being remade is because pretty much every film of it has been a success (don't know about the TV film.)

That said, Emma Stone and her low voice would have made a great Jo years ago. And actually JLaw would have made a good Jo back when she was a teen-ager.

Jennifer Lawrence is too sexy to ever have played Jo. Emma Stone could have been a good one 10-12 years ago, she does do intelligent misfits well.

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Exactly how many adaptations of Little Women do we need? This woman was just being hailed as a visionary female director earlier this year., and her next project is the 7th remake of a tired property.

Greta Earwig.

Another gay man complaining. How original

Wasn't Jo the dykiest (just like on "Facts of Life?") If so ... Ellen Page, ladies and gentlemen!

R161 Another cunt on DL. How original.

Name calling - typical of small minds

The little women had big minds.

Ellen is probably older than Emma. Laurie Metcalf was too old to be LadyBird’s mother and everyone loved her.

It will be impossible to see this film and not compare it with the one made by Winona Ryder, Claire Danes and the handsome Christian Bale. It will be better? We'll see, Mrs. Gerwig bets on a strong cast counting on Meryl Streep, Saorise Ronan or Timothée Chalamet.

Meh. My favourite Little Women was the one with June Allyson and Peter Lawford. It’s the most Christmassy and seems like the shortest.

This thread is for discussion of the 2019 film Little Women including any filming, promotion and interviews.

Shut the f#ck up. My version's best.

I acted my ASS off.

No comments on David Cassidy’s passing, dear Susan?

Cunt.

Just watch my version again, okay? It's genius. Very searing.

And I am dealing with my private feelings about the recent events in my own way.

I ask you all to respect that. [bold]#boundaries[/bold]

I understand the decision to cast the Marches with white actresses (so they can all appear believably related) but I think prof baehr could easily (and probably should) be cast with a poc because he's meant to be 'foreign' anyway and changing his country of origin wouldn't alter the story much

Ye gods, not this story again!! How about an adaptation of "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret".

R173, I'm hoping you're joking. Or do you think mixed marriages were a thing in 19th century New England?

I thought they were considering Oscar Isaac and he's Latino (originally from Guatemala )

He was spotted having dinner with Greta a few weeks ago. Whether it was anything to do with this is anyone's guess but he'd be a good pick.

Yeah, someone like Osvar Isaac would be a good choice.

Or even John Cho.

I wonder who old they will go for that role though, Oscar is 39 while John Cho is 46

Id love to see an "updated" version of Little Women set in 2018. Do we really need to see another version of Little Women the traditional way?

Well this version will be significantly different anyway as it is focusing on the Good Wives section, rather than the sisters' years as teenagers.

[quote]Id love to see an "updated" version of Little Women set in 2018. Do we really need to see another version of Little Women the traditional way?

That was basically the Susan Sarandon version. They should have called it Little Women: I Am Woman Hear Me Roar!

The most recent version was dreadful. Even Angela Lansbury couldn't see her way through it.

Alas, I think Miss Alcott will be like Charles Dickens and we will see 10,000 productions of Oliver Twist with everyone trying to put their stamp on the genius stories.

@r180 They made a 2018 little women with lea Thompson it looks bad

This is the 2018 movie that opens next month

^^ That shall be the ultimate version! All others to be forgotten.

Laura Dern as the mom I guess.

Fate.

Why did someone say Emma Stone is anorexic????

It's called cocaine and pill addiction.

The cast is amazing.

If greta casts a white guy as baehr Twitter is gonna pre-cancel this film because they seem to have already decided that she chose oscar Isaac

That modern version looks horrific. If they really wanted to update it, they should have Jo fall for a woman in college. God knows the lesbian subtext is there with her dis of Laurie and her being matched up to a sexless older guy at the end of the book.

This is filming in October i wonder whether Emma stones part will be small because I'm sure she will be spending most of the winter and fall doing promotion for her Netflix show and then for her likely awards contender film... (ronan , pugh and chalamet have fall/winter release films too )

I was impressed with the Winona Ryder version. As a long time New Englander, she pronounced Concord correctly. It's not CONcord but said as Concurd.

I know this is an ensemble cast but which characters are the main ones?. No, I haven't read the book nor seen the movies.

R191 is correct about how to update it, but this is a story that doesn't need updating. One of the more charming things about the book is that it's a wonderfully detailed slice of life in another era, when life was both similar to our own and different. It's always interesting to watch the March girls try to impress their peers on a budget, just like modern girls, but to be shocked to realize that chicken was once more expensive than lobster!

And R194, the main characters are the four March sisters, with their mother and the boy next door as the main supporting characters. But Jo March is the POV character, everything is seen through her eyes.

I'm playing Amy, for heaven's sake.

And if I'm in a good mood I may let G play Mr. March. She's still got her Albert's Nob costumes. Wears them all the time, Patti sez.

I think this adaption is to focus on the girls teen/adult years with flashbacks so while jo will still be the main character they could also really focus on Amy or Meg too

[quote]r195 Jo March is the POV character, everything is seen through her eyes.

That character's the closest to the author's own personality, and got a sequel of sorts in LITTLE MEN, but neither story's told from her point of view.

Add Emma Watson

At this rate they should title it Little Old Women.

How about a big screen version of Designing Women instead? M could play Bernice Clifton and James Norton could either be Mary Jo’s hot ex-husband or Charlene’s Bill. Laura Dern as Julia Sugarbaker.

Watson would be replacing Stone--so I'm guessing that this is Jo, but Saoirse Ronan's also supposed to be involved, so maybe not. Meg, maybe? With Florence Pugh as Amy?

I presume that Stone is playing Jo, Ronan is playing Beth, and that Watson will be left with the boring role of Meg. Frankly, they're all about ten years older than they ought to be.

Still, they could do worse than Stone, who did a decent job of butching it up in "Battle of the Sexes". She succeeded in playing someone who looked totally wrong in feminine clothing.

Stone's out--scheduling conflicts--Watson, according to the Hollywood Reporter, is replacing Stone--so is she Jo or Meg? Saiorse Ronan does leads these days--I doubt she'd be Beth. She might be Amy, who's nearly as strong-willed as Jo.

Ronan as Amy? Amy is supposed to be what, twelve when the story begins?

Saoirse is Jo. Stone, now Watson is Meg. Pugh is Amy. The actress playing Beth is still unknown.

Thanks R206--that makes more sense. Saiorse has a stronger screen presence than Watson.

R205, the film is supposed to be focused on the sisters when they're older.

Will Timmy be Beth or Meg? Jo is too butch for him.

Eliza scanlen from sharp objects is beth

Ok, so put everything together we have so far;

Saoirse Ronan- Jo March Emma Watson- Meg March Florence Pugh- Amy March Eliza Scanlen- Beth March Meryl Streep- Aunt March Laura Dern- Marmee March? Timothée Chalamet- Laurie James Norton- John Brooke? ( Meg’s husband)

Where’s my gourgeous Friedrich Bhaer?

I don't think Bhaer will end up being played by Oscar Isaac because it seems the filming of Star Wars would clash? If it's a white man that gets cast Twitter will be predictably mad

R211 In the ‘94 version the professor was played by Gabriel Byrne. Ahhhh, handsome actor and very good....I don’t know, maybe James Norton will turn out to be the one playing him.

PBS just did a version with actresses as close to age appropriate as you're going to get. Why do it again with actresses who really aren't?

Also, Emma Watson will be the end of this movie, can’t stand the shit out of her...ughhhh. Why, Greta? Why??

Our thoughts and prayers are with all the cast, specially with Saoirse and James Norton.

R214, Because she's available. She's a last-minute replacement for Emma Stone. Not the end of the world, Saiorse Ronan's playing the main character and she should be good.

Re: Twitter--fuck Twitter. Professor Bhaer's a German emigre and should be played by someone who can look German. Period.

Jesus, again with this? Dear Hollywood, please stop remaking this movie (also Spider Man).

I don't know that I have a favorite version; I guess the Susan Sarandon one, where they wisely had two actresses play Amy. The '33 Katharine Hepburn version is ridiculous because Joan Bennett plays Amy, who's 12 at the beginning of the book. Bennett was 24, towered over the other actresses, and was pregnant to boot and she still plays it as as 12-year-old (realizing this was not her decision); it's kind of mortifying to watch. The '49 version with June Allyson is pretty much a scene-for-scene repeat of the '33 one; same screenwriter, and Allyson seems to be copying Hepburn's mannerisms, and her Jo just seems annoying.

Just read the book; it's wonderful.

I like her but I’m not feeling Pugh as Amy. Would rather see Kieran Shipka in that role.

I forget. Which one croaks?

Beth dies.

Amy is the vain, bratty sister.

But, seriously who do you guys think James Norton will play? The professor or Meg’s husband?

What do people think about the casting change from Emma Stone to Emma Watson?

Eliza Scanlen was the only good thing about Sharp Objects, including Amy’s dirty sweatpants.

Timothee Chalamet as a Little Woman ? OK I can see that.

It's not good, R222.

From what I've seen Stone is a much better actress than Watson, she's proven her ability to play slightly butch, and she can do an American accent without even thinking about it.

I agree with R225. I don’t like Watson either. She’s plain in everything she does. She’ll always be Hermione in my eyes.

But Stone and Watson were cast as Meg, who's very feminine. The slightly butch one is Jo played by Saiorse Ronan.

Watson should be fine, not as interesting as Stone, but it's a supporting part.

Meryl Streep, seriously? Must that over rated cunt be in everything?

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. In Streep's case, that means disappearing forever.

R227 They just chose Watson because of her fanbase. They’re more leaning towards a commercial movie.

I also think Watson will be fine. Emma backed out because she realized her part would be very small (or she is on drugs again).

CDAN says Emma Stone backed out because the script was bad (allegedly). I thought it was weird she agreed and then she backed out because of “promotional” duties for The Favouite. Wouldn’t her people know in advance whether or not she was available? Seems sketchy.

R231 And...you believe CDAN? Okayy....The script isn’t bad. She just changed mind.

I didn’t say I believed them, just what they said. I hope it’s s big hit and Emma Stone regrets it for the rest of her life.

R233 But you cited it as if it were a reliable source...Anyway, the rumours go like this: she was already seen in preproduction this summer with Meryl and from other sources she was on board with the project, but something came up. What that “something” is, that is still unknown. Overall, even without Stone, the movie still has a strong cast so I have high hopes for this movie, even though as many other users said the story has been recycled to death.

I told that bitch to scram.

I would say Spider-Man has been recycled to death, so I don’t care if they remake Little Women after 25 years.

So Emma Watson is paired with James Norton and is it Eliza Scanlen or Florence Pugh with timothee chalamet?

R237 Florence Pugh is playing Amy therefore she will have the most of the scenes with Chalamet. Don’t know about James Norton...if he’s indeed playing Meg’s husband, then yeah he’ll be paired with Watson.

Louis Garrel was cast in LW...so which character will he play? The French tutor?

[quote]r203 Watson will be left with the boring role of Meg.

Meg is certainly the most boring of the sisters. She kind of plays straight man to Jo, then she gets married.

Zzzzzz.....

Why isn't there a Negro playing one of the sistahs?

Well, the story could use something to spice it up.

Meryl is playing the role that Ellen Corby did in 1948- one of the maids at the brownstone Jo goes to work as a tutor. She will not play Aunt March. They are fleshing out the part to make her more of Jo's confidante.

I love an actor who will drop trou anytime asked...

R243 Source? Can’t find anything about that...

I doubt very seriously Meryl will be playing a maid...

Anyway, who’s gonna play Louis? The professor?

Do we really need a new version of "Little Women" every year?

Meryl is 30 years too old to play Marmee.

Imdb has Meryl playing Aunt March. Try to keep up ,dear....

Looks like GG and Meryl are going to work on another film according to imdb...

After Little Women, r249? Link please.

And Kristen Stewart, the finest actor of her generation, gets overlooked for ... emma bleeping watson????

Why can't Kristen Stewart get a fucking part when all her peers are racking up projects left right and centre?

No one serious wants to work with Kristen Stewart.

Kristen Stewart is as much fun to work with as Denzel Washington.

Bitch could do THE HELEN LAWSON STORY, come the day.

It sounds terrible.

r249/r255 is Greta also attached to M’s next film? Soderburgh is directing.

Oops. I don’t know why I thought Greta was directing The Laundromat.