I thought it couldn’t really get any worse than Madonna’s cover of Don McLean’s “American Pie.” American Pie is one of my favorite songs and I thought her version was awful. At the time I thought that such things were simply one of the costs of having a First Amendment. But now, Madonna is reportedly going even further down the road of offensive reinterpretation. Reportedly, Madonna is trying to drum up interest in a remake of the classic film “Casablanca” set in “war torn Iraq.”
As the Daily mall reports:
A source at a major Hollywood studio that was recently approached by the 49-year-old star said: "She is still determined to make it in the movies.
"She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all time."
In the 1942 original, Bergman starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, who played Rick Blaine, a cynical bar owner in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in the early days of the Second World War. Ilsa is torn between love for her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, and her ex-lover Rick. Madonna is said to believe the film will make her reputation as an actress, after a string of high-profile flops such as Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence and Swept Away, her much-derided 2002 collaboration with husband Guy Ritchie.
The source said: "Madonna is talking about taking the Ingrid Bergman role for herself, even though Bergman was in her 20s when she played Ilsa and Madonna is nearly 50.
Well given that just about every movie set in Iraq has thus far been a commercial disappointment (if not an outright flop), I can only hope that Hollywood decides good taste and profits both demand that this film not be made.
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