Reports this morning's Variety: "The Jude Law-Michael Caine remake of Sleuth is a go, with Kenneth Branagh on board to direct an adaptation of the Anthony Shaffer play, scripted by Harold Pinter."
How wrong is this? Let us count the ways:
1) Law--duller than Hollywood thinks he is, overexposed, spent force.
2) Caine--miscast in the Olivier part. Clearly money-grubbing (a career trait) after the awful Get Carter remake, which he appeared in, and apparently all-too-willing to overlook Law's uninspired performance in the forgettable Alfie remake.
3) Branagh--how his stock has fallen, to take this on.
4) Pinter--Let's hope he has at least one great work left in him and doesn't kick off with this thing as the last marker for his tombstone. Was he paid to blow the dust off the pages of the original script and screenplay? There's no way to reinvent this particular wheel.
Consolation: The remake will no doubt occasion a 35th-anniversary DVD of the original next year, which was all that was really required.
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