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A remake of the 1988 comedy, 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', in which two down-and-out con artists engage in a "loser leaves town" contest.
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Your thoughts on this movie......
A remake of the 1988 comedy, 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', in which two down-and-out con artists engage in a "loser leaves town" contest.
Doctor Omega
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Alex Sharp Joins Rebel Wilson in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' Remake
The gender-swapped reboot also stars Anne Hathaway.
MGM's gender-swapped Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake has found its male lead.
Alex Sharp will join Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway in the reboot, titled Nasty Women. He will play a tech billionaire in his early 20s who becomes the center of a wager between two experienced con women. The late Glenne Headly played the unwitting role opposite Michael Caine and Steve Martin in the original.
Veep director Chris Addison will direct from a script by Jac Schaeffer. Wilson will produce the project along with Roger Birnbaum, who will produce under his Pin High Productions banner.
Sharp, who won a Tony for his work in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, was seen in the Netflix drama To the Bone from Marti Noxon. He also stars in the Neil Gaiman adaptation How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
Chris Addison to direct gender-swap Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake
The Thick of It actor to make big-screen directorial debut with Nasty Women, which stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as con artists
The Thick of It actor Chris Addison is to direct the film Nasty Women, the gender-swapped remake of the 1980s comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
According to Variety, Addison will make his big-screen directorial debut with the film, which stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as two con artists who plot to swindle a tech prodigy out of his fortune. TiMER director Jac Schaeffer will write the screenplay.
In the original Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Steve Martin and Michael Caine attempt to defraud a heiress out of $50,000. That 1988 film was a remake of the Marlon Brando and David Niven comedy Bedtime Story, which was originally written, according to David Bowie, for Bowie and Mick Jagger.
The update continues a recent Hollywood trend for gender-swapped remakes, including last year’s all-female version of Ghostbusters, starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon. This year brings the release of Ocean’s Eight, an all-female reboot of the heist movie Ocean’s Eleven. Also in production are gender-swapped versions of the action film Road House, starring the mixed martial arts athlete Ronda Rousey in the role first played by Patrick Swayze, and the fantasy-comedy Splash, with Channing Tatum as the mermaid, played in the original by Daryl Hannah.
British actor Addison came to prominence playing Ollie Reeder in The Thick of It, a political TV satire created by Armando Iannucci, and later featured in spin-off film In the Loop. He also had a recurring role in Doctor Who, and was a regular panelist on Mock the Week. In recent years, Addison has primarily worked behind the camera, directing episodes of Iannucci’s US political sitcom Veep.
Nasty Women isn’t the only recent adaptation of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. A stage musical version opened on Broadway in 2005 and transferred to the West End in 2014.
The original Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.....
And the original version before that...... Bedtime Story.....
The gender-swapped reboot also stars Anne Hathaway.
MGM's gender-swapped Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake has found its male lead.
Alex Sharp will join Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway in the reboot, titled Nasty Women. He will play a tech billionaire in his early 20s who becomes the center of a wager between two experienced con women. The late Glenne Headly played the unwitting role opposite Michael Caine and Steve Martin in the original.
Veep director Chris Addison will direct from a script by Jac Schaeffer. Wilson will produce the project along with Roger Birnbaum, who will produce under his Pin High Productions banner.
Sharp, who won a Tony for his work in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, was seen in the Netflix drama To the Bone from Marti Noxon. He also stars in the Neil Gaiman adaptation How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
Chris Addison to direct gender-swap Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake
The Thick of It actor to make big-screen directorial debut with Nasty Women, which stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as con artists
The Thick of It actor Chris Addison is to direct the film Nasty Women, the gender-swapped remake of the 1980s comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
According to Variety, Addison will make his big-screen directorial debut with the film, which stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as two con artists who plot to swindle a tech prodigy out of his fortune. TiMER director Jac Schaeffer will write the screenplay.
In the original Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Steve Martin and Michael Caine attempt to defraud a heiress out of $50,000. That 1988 film was a remake of the Marlon Brando and David Niven comedy Bedtime Story, which was originally written, according to David Bowie, for Bowie and Mick Jagger.
The update continues a recent Hollywood trend for gender-swapped remakes, including last year’s all-female version of Ghostbusters, starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon. This year brings the release of Ocean’s Eight, an all-female reboot of the heist movie Ocean’s Eleven. Also in production are gender-swapped versions of the action film Road House, starring the mixed martial arts athlete Ronda Rousey in the role first played by Patrick Swayze, and the fantasy-comedy Splash, with Channing Tatum as the mermaid, played in the original by Daryl Hannah.
British actor Addison came to prominence playing Ollie Reeder in The Thick of It, a political TV satire created by Armando Iannucci, and later featured in spin-off film In the Loop. He also had a recurring role in Doctor Who, and was a regular panelist on Mock the Week. In recent years, Addison has primarily worked behind the camera, directing episodes of Iannucci’s US political sitcom Veep.
Nasty Women isn’t the only recent adaptation of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. A stage musical version opened on Broadway in 2005 and transferred to the West End in 2014.
The original Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.....
And the original version before that...... Bedtime Story.....
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Part of me wants to be interested in this movie but another part of me wishes they'd just make it as a standalone concept rather than trying to badge it as a gender swapped remake. The idea of two con artists teaming up doesn't have to be a remake of a remake. It's a generic enough concept that it could just be a standalone movie that happens to have females (and incredibly talented ones at that) in the lead roles. Even if it follows the broad strokes of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels doesn't mean it needs to a direct remake. Identifying it as a remake suggests a lack of confidence in either the concept itself or in the ability of the leads to sell the movie.
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The Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson-led remake of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” previously titled “Nasty Women,” has been set for an August 10th 2018 release by Annapurna.
Chris Addison helms the currently untitled film in which the pair play scam artists who compete to see who can take a tech prodigy for all he’s worth.
Chris Addison helms the currently untitled film in which the pair play scam artists who compete to see who can take a tech prodigy for all he’s worth.
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The Hustle
Comedian Rebel Wilson has confirmed that the Chris Addison-directed “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” remake, in which she stars with Anne Hathaway, has scored the new title of “The Hustle” which replaces the previous one of “Nasty Women”.
MGM has also moved up the film’s release by over a month with the movie now bowing on June 29th. Wilson and Hathaway play women from different walks of life teaming up to con a tech billionaire (Alex Sharp) in his early 20s.
At least they're not completely trading off the original name. The fact that they're willing to give this a different title suggests that it might be a remake "in concept only". I'll be disappointed if it turns out to be basically the same story as the original, especially if they try to keep the original twist, which won't be a twist if everyone already knows its coming.
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I bet they do keep it, sadly.
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The first trailer is out for “The Hustle,” MGM’s upcoming gender-reversed remake of Frank Oz’s 1988 classic con comedy “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin (itself a remake of 1964’s “Bedtime Story”).
In this take two female scam artists, one low-rent and the other high-class, compete to swindle a naive tech billionaire (Alex Sharp) out of his fortune. Tim Blake Nelson and Dean Norris also star.
Jac Schaeffer penned the screenplay while “The Thick of It” star Chris Addison helms the project.
In this take two female scam artists, one low-rent and the other high-class, compete to swindle a naive tech billionaire (Alex Sharp) out of his fortune. Tim Blake Nelson and Dean Norris also star.
Jac Schaeffer penned the screenplay while “The Thick of It” star Chris Addison helms the project.
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The Hustle reviewed by Mark Kermode