Hollywood is creatively bankrupt, part 10,000: They are remaking "Fiddler"

Man of La Mancha is more in need of a worthwhile screen adaptation.

Yet another remake no one asked for, and that no one wants.

Are the writers all brain dead?

Good Lord, NO ONE will see this.

I liked the Jewison version personally, but 1971 was a very different time. Musicals aren't nearly in "demand" now, and even the more successful ones are very different in tone (Moulin Rouge, Chicago, The Greatest Showman). They are bursting with crazy energy, have a cut every 30 seconds, etc.

Fiddler on the Roof won't translate to that.

It's been a while since FIDDLER ON THE ROOF played live in the U.S. There hasn't been a live theater version of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF since the most recent production ran on West 42nd Street in Manhattan from February 2019 through December 2019.

The recent off-Broadway Yiddish Fiddler was fantastic.

Lin-Manuel Miranda IS Tevye!

R5. Yes, if they are going to remake it, they should do it in Yiddish--that was a great production.

The three daughters will be played by trans women of color.

Jake Gyllenhaal is jewish right

Come to think of it, it's probably time we started to think about remaking LITTLE WOMEN, SPIDERMAN, KING KONG and GYPSY

Remake Cats.

Actually, don't. I wouldn't mind seeing a better A Chorus Line adaptation though.

Laverne Cox IS Tevye!

Ryan Murphy is already adapting A Chorus Line as a miniseries for Netflix.

Those beautiful songs sung by some Valley girl in a sickly sweet trilling voice.

Yenta will be played by Viola Davis and Hodel will be a lesbian.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I'm sure Meryl could handle Tevye.

Yes Jake Gyllenhaal is Jewish, so are Lenny Kravitz, SLASH, Scarlett Johannsen, Adam, Levine, Gene Simmons, DRAKE, and Zoe Kravitz. They can create an updated rock hip-hop opera fiddler.

MGM has to be some kind of money laundering scheme. All they do is reboot titles from their catalog. and almost all of them bomb.

and guaranteed to have anachronistic dialogue, cringeworthy, I'm certain

A mini-series of A Chorus Line?! RYAN MURPHY?!?!

What has God done to us?

Gyllenhaal's father, who was raised as a Swedenborgian, is of Swedish and English descent and is a descendant of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family. Jake is half Jewish.

Yo, yeah yeah bitch, if I were a rich dude! Yo bitches all day long I'd hey yeah yeah. Ho!

Fidler is boring.

r22 I beg your pardon!

I just don't see a need to do a Fiddler remake. The original film is an excellent adaptation of the stage musical -reasonably sung and with the score almost intact. The acting was great and the visuals suitably depressing. I don't know what new things a remake could bring to the story. Conversely, I'm quite anxious to see the new film of West Side Story, because I've never found it satisfactory, except as a soundtrack album. I hate the cheesy light tricks and the stilted acting from most of the leads -who were much too old for their characters. Film musical that were outright rotten -like A Chorus Line -should get a remake over a success like Fiddler.

Nothing will ever beat this:

R4- it was playing in NYC just last year.

I’m only here for this if they replace ‘If I Were a Rich Man’ with Gwen’s ‘Rich Girl.’

This new film will be set in NYC where Hasidic Jews will be driven out of town by the police for violating the social distancing order. Instead of singing " Anatevka," they will sing about " Borough Park."

What next?

Showboat?

This remake business is out of hand. It’s as if, it has become some strange new kind of.... TRADITION!!!

A musical? Fiddler on the Fucking Roof?

Where and how much can I invest?

[quote]Hodel will be a lesbian

Pics please.

Looking forward to another remake of Cats.

Actually, [R29], I wouldn't mind a Show Boat remake at all -IF it were totally in your face and not flinching from the racism of the period. I don't know that movie audiences would go for the classical vocal technique needed for some of the score, but I've always wanted a Show Boat that told the story more from the black characters' points of view. Restore the song "Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun'" and cast Queen Latifah and I'm there!

A deconstructed Showboat is a good idea but would probably work better on Broadway than on film.

The 1972 film was perfectly fine.

Chrissy Metz IS the Cotton Blossom!

Golde O'Donnell

I’d entertain offers to play the part of Tzeitel or perhaps another of the daughters. Thank you.

R20

Jewish mother = Jewish. It doesn't matter if Jake's father was born on Mars.

Barbra would be great as Yente. She even has a song (The Rumor) that wasn't used in the original film.

Barbra would be great as the milk cart.

Barbra would be great as the proprietress of the upscale shtetl mall.

[quote]I’d entertain offers to play the part of Tzeitel or perhaps another of the daughters. Thank you.

#MeToo

Add Broadway to your claim of creative bankruptcy.

Can she be in the Company?

She's too busy stinking up Company.

I would love a new film of "Showboat", but it would have to go a long way to beat the 1936 James Whale Universal version which is superb entertainment.

Norm Lewis could play Joe and sing "Old Man River"! Ultimately the only person allowed to play Queenie will be Viola Davis who will give many interviews about the importance of her being black and having a career in film for which she must still struggle every day. Although people will eat it up, "Queenie's Ballyhoo" will ultimately not be restored to the score.

Mike Myers will make a comeback as a wonderful Cap'n Andy, and Streep will play Parthy...like Streep.

Timmy for Tevye!!!

I'm starting a campaign.

I'd make a faaaaaaaabulous Tevye.