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/Film: Screenwriter Hired for Feature Reworking of Documentary Young@Heart
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'I'm With Cancer' scribe Will Reiser to pen film remake of doc: Hollywood Reporter ... Mass., senio.. http://bit.ly/2sqjnw 11/16/2009 |
"Young@Heart" Doco Remade As Film
Dark Horizons - General Feed —
... Will Reiser ("I'm With Cancer") is in negotiations to pen a narrative feature film based on the acclaimed 2007 documentary "Young@Heart" for Working Title says The Hollywood Reporter. ...
Screenwriter Hired for Feature Reworking of Documentary Young@Heart
/Film —
Can’t say I really get the mini-trend of remaking documentary films as dramatic features. OK, Werner Herzog (Little Dieter Needs to Fly –> Rescue Dawn) gets a pass, mainly because he’s Herzog. But translating Grey Gardens into a fictionalized piece robbed the story of something essential and, I think, added nothing.
Last year saw the release of Young@Heart, a great little documentary about a group of senior citizens that performs their own versions of rock songs. Working Title Pictures picked up the rights to remake the film as a dramatic feature before the doc was even released. Now the company has a writer in mind for the project: Will Reiser, a former producer on Da Ali G ...
Leona Lewis Sings 'Avatar'; 'Young@Heart' Gets Remake; Friedkin An 'Excorcist' Again?
:: The Playlist :: —
... did versions of contemporary songs by groups like Coldplay , The Clash , The Talking Heads and James Brown . The film was a charmer, by turns funny and moving, and more often than not raised geniune goosebumps. If you didn't a shed a tear during their versions of Sonic Youth 's "Schizophrenia" or Coldplay's "Fix You" (yeah, an elderly man who has trouble breathing did it better than Chris Martin ever will) than you truly are made of stone. Well, it appears it's headed for a narrative remake and " I'm With Cancer " scribe Will Reiser is in talks with Working Title ...
