Last month, we reported that director Michael Hoffman (The Last Station) had come on board to helm the Coen Brothers-scripted remake of the 1966 Michael Caine caper comedy Gambit. Deadline now reports that Oscar nominee Colin Firth is in talks to play the Caine role of a cat burglar who attempts to steal a priceless statue from a billionaire by enlisting the help of a waitress (played in the original by Shirley MacLaine) who looks like the billionaire’s deceased wife.
Firth, who is likely to receive an Oscar nomination for his wonderful performance in The King’s Speech, is currently developing a film based on the Amanda Knox murder case with director Michael Winterbottom (The Killer Inside Me), and is co-starring in Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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Yes, please. Even though Michael Caine was around 32 in the original, and I was sort of hoping for James McAvoy (figuring Hoffmann should hand him a starring role after McAvoy did the ensemble cast thing for The Last Station after he’d agreed to do the role four years earlier). If Firth does choose this film, hope they cast a comedienne who’s at least in her 30s…MacLaine was about 32 or 33. Early 40s would be nice.
The only Gambit movie I want to see is about Remy LeBeau.
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