Remake: Not A Piece Of Cake

A remake is easy when the original isn’t a very good movie. You can make it shine the 2nd time. But beating a popular original movie is too tough. Who to cast, what changes should be made, etc. is difficult when your trying to turn a popular hit movie, into a bigger hit.

‘The Taking of Pelham 123’ was no different. The screenwriter for this 2009 remake would agree with that.

Screenwriter David Koepp is the one who recently adapted the novel by John Godey, for director Tony Scott and star Denzel Washington.

Expressing his dilemma Koepp said-

“I wrote many drafts to try and put it in the present day and keep all the great execution that was there from the first one,” he explained. “It’s thirty years later so you have to take certain things into account. Hopefully we came up with a clever way to move it to the present.”

This was just one of the obstacles faced by him.

“Not the least of which, of course, is that even forgetting for a moment the new technology, it’s a terrorist situation in New York in a “post-9/11 world,” said Koepp.

Catch the 2009 version of ‘The Taking of Pelham 123’ on: http://www.thetakingofpelham123gulf.com/