Movie Dad's Army film

[ManWithNoName]

Yes. They're making a Dad's Army film. Cast has been announced.

Toby Jones (Mainwaring)
Bill Nighy (Wilson)
Mark Gatiss
Catherine Zeta Jones
Michael Gambon

Full cast tweet by Empire:



At first I was wondering what was happening in the world. But then I pictured Toby Jones and Bill Nighy as Mainwaring and Wilson and I absolutely want to see this film.

 

[The Sultan]

So they've officially run out of ideas

 

[windyhill]

Messing with an icon here, tread carefully.

 

[ManWithNoName]

So they've officially run out of ideas

I'm waiting for the gritty reboot of On The Buses.

 

[benji2]

I'm waiting for the gritty reboot of On The Buses.

Or the Love Thy Neighbour movie?

Hopefully they don't try and 'update' the Dad's Army theme for starters

 

[Spiritof82]

Yes. They're making a Dad's Army film. Cast has been announced.

Toby Jones (Mainwaring)
Bill Nighy (Wilson)
Mark Gatiss
Catherine Zeta Jones
Michael Gambon

Full cast tweet by Empire:



At first I was wondering what was happening in the world. But then I pictured Toby Jones and Bill Nighy as Mainwaring and Wilson and I absolutely want to see this film.

Don't get too excited, the papers yesterday had Zeta Jones as Mainwaring, and that's where it lost me Hope they got the Jones mixed up) but will avoid at all costs if thats the way its going, bit like the proposed remake of Ghostbusters with an all female cast.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Don't get too excited, the papers yesterday had Zeta Jones as Mainwaring, and that's where it lost me Hope they got the Jones mixed up) but will avoid at all costs if thats the way its going, bit like the proposed remake of Ghostbusters with an all female cast.

Toby Jones is Mainwaring.

 

[Spiritof82]

Toby Jones is Mainwaring.

That's a relief

 

[Warwick]

Sacrilegious.

You do not mess with the greatest sitcom of all time. Totally unnecessary.

 

[ManWithNoName]

 

[Wallaby]

I'd mind re-boots or remakes. They don't 'sully the memory of the original'. If you want to maintain your memories of when you watched it 40 years ago, don't watch the new version. The original isn't a sacred text.

It introduces the comedy to a whole new audience - it provides a nostalgia hit for the oldies (without just repeating the old episodes) - and if it succeeds, it may launch the characters and situation into a whole new series. Similar to what has happened to Superman and all the new comic heroes.

And if it dies a death, no one speaks of it again.

 

[jim boy]

Toby Jones lacks the pomposity and Nighy lacks the disinterested detachment of the privileged class - that was 50% of the comedy of Dad's Army

Incidentally, am currently watching Toby Jones in The Detectorists, written and directed by McKenzie Crook, whjch he is very good in.

 

[jim boy]

Having just watched "We're doomed, the dad's army story", its a pity they didn't get John Sessions to do Mainwarring, he did a superb Arthur Lowe in what was a surprisingly good docudrama.

 

[ManWithNoName]

This looks...oh...oh dear.

 

[ManWithNoName]

What on earth is with Toby Jones' voice?

 

[Wallaby]

I presume they are setting up a gotcha - it seems so obvious from the trailers who the spy is, they must throw a twist in there to show how clever they really are.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Here's a review. It gives away who the spy is so if you're desperate to be unspoiled, don't read it. Although from the review I don't think it's meant to be a surprise in the film. This sounds genuinely, and unsurprisingly, awful. The most offensive part might be that they show Mainwaring's wife. That's sacrilege.

http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/dads-army-film-review-we-re-doomed-a3173681.html

 

[Demosthenes]

I don't really see the point in remaking a sitcom where the intended audience is all dead. Most of the stuff that made it so sly and clever will be lost on modern viewers, so presumably they'll have to dumb down the humour ridiculously.

 

[HahnPremium]

 

[GWBogan]

Looks s**t and will totally bomb at the box office.

 

[RolandF1]

I thought remaking old tv shows into movies died a decade ago?

 

[Pessimistic]

Finally saw this on ch7 and although the film was OK, zeta jones should have been on TV much more often

damn you michael douglas you selfish bastard

shes damn fine for almost 50