>>due to nostalgia but ionno...
>>
>>I can't see them remaking a black classic using white people
>>and expecting us to run out and see it.
>
>I'm thinking they're going after kids and parents. The "ooh,
>Mommy, I wanna see it!" factor. The parents were children when
>the 1982 movie came out, so that's a targetable audience too.
>The people old enough to actually remember Annie when she was
>a thing...nah, most of them ain't going like you said.
>
>But what black classic could you even remake with white folks?
>That's the issue. Most American films with predominately Black
>casts are so specific to the Black experience that they don't
>work with white actors in the parts. I mean, "Carmen Jones" is
>already "Carmen". They did try inverting "Guess Who's Coming
>to Dinner" as "Guess Who", which didn't work so well.
>
>White "Shaft"? There's hundreds of cop dramas in that vein.
>Robert Blake had a whole TV show.
>
>White "Coming to America"? "Borat", I guess...?
>
>White "Life"? Laurel & Hardy made it in 1931, it's called
>"Pardon Us". I'm sure there's others.
>
>The musical version of "Annie", on the other hand, is so
>culture-nonspecific that you could cast practically any little
>girl and grown man of any race or ethnicity as the two leads
>and the story still makes sense.
>
>>
>>I know they don't need to do that but I'm just talking
>>hypothetically.
>>
>>maybe the public will defy the critics but I seriously doubt
>>it.
>
>That was what I was typing in the OP but forgot to finish -
>just because it's getting bad reviews (_very_ bad reviews)
>doesn't mean the public may not like it. After all, these
>folks flocked to go see four awful films in a row about
>robotic toys from the 1980s. Anything is possible.