Comments on: Mimi Leder to Direct All Quiet on the Western Front Remake https://filmjunk.com/2011/07/26/mimi-leder-to-direct-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-remake/ The World's Longest-Running Movie Podcast Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.33 By: JP https://filmjunk.com/2011/07/26/mimi-leder-to-direct-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-remake/comment-page-1/#comment-5214653 Mon, 07 May 2012 01:19:45 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=60597#comment-5214653 “Although she hadn’t read the novel or seen the original film when sent the script…”
This classic novel certainly deserves an in-depth big screen interpretation because it has been 82 years since Milestone’s release. I hope the director heeds Pope’s observation: “A little learning is a dang’rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring…”

]]> By: Darksiders https://filmjunk.com/2011/07/26/mimi-leder-to-direct-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-remake/comment-page-1/#comment-2877365 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=60597#comment-2877365 great. a generic remake of a fantastic film and an amazing book in the works again. she hadn’t seen the original film or read the book before reading the script? so what she’s telling us is that she’s a filmically illiterate as well as being plain old fashioned illiterate as well? What are books? I don’t know. I read the Twilight series on my iPad.

maybe she can get george clooney to rock that mullet again like she did in the peacemaker.

]]> By: Lior https://filmjunk.com/2011/07/26/mimi-leder-to-direct-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-remake/comment-page-1/#comment-2876589 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:30:57 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=60597#comment-2876589 The original 1930 film is stunning.
There was a made for TV remake in the 70’s, I believe, which I haven’t seen.
Don’t have a problem with the director – she’s a veteran of the TV show ER, so she knows how to do action+drama, and Peacemaker was an impressive, albeit neglected, debut film. I haven’t watched the others, though.

]]> By: Justice https://filmjunk.com/2011/07/26/mimi-leder-to-direct-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-remake/comment-page-1/#comment-2874408 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:56:01 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=60597#comment-2874408 Nice! This is one of my favorite books of all time and I’ve been waiting for a realistic WWI movie for a long time. Hopefully she’ll drop out and we can get a better director though.

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