Danny Devito to star in Classic 40's The Man Who Came to Dinner.

[snowcreature23]

Danny DeVito To Remake Classic 1940s Film


Danny DeVito is set to play the title role in a re-make of the classic 1941 comedy The Man Who Came To Dinner. The small-town yarn was originally directed by William Keighley for Warner Bros and starred Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan and Monty Woolley. Woolley, a close personal friend of Cole Porter, reprised his Broadway role of a pompous critic who returns to his Midwestern hometown to accept an award. Things start going wrong when he goes to dinner with a wealthy local resident and is taken ill, and is forced to become an unwanted house guest. In the new version, the critic becomes an arrogant talk-show host. A film crew member says, "Danny has been dreaming about playing this part for many years. It is one of his favorites. Steven Spielberg thinks it could become a modern-day classic."Should they make another remake of this classic from the 40's Danny Deveto would be a great Whitesgin, as the grumpy old man in the wheel chair and faking a illness, bullying all his people around. Kind of like Mr Scrooge, Bettie Davis as Maggie as the secetery, who would play the main parts?

[comedyfreak]

How about Reese Witherspoon? I'll have to go back and watch the original.