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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Jan 2 16:00:10 2009 My good friend Terrence Goode, who had a minor role in the upcoming remake of "The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three" sent me a couple of post-production pics from the movie. John Travolta is Mr. Green, the leader of the hijackers, reprising Robert Shaw's role in the original: Playing opposite Travolta is Denzel Washington, who reprises Walter Matthau as Zachary Garber:  Now, in the remake, Washigton suggested a rewrite, making Garber a TA dispatcher. Washigton admits not having seen the original (or having read the John Godey novel), but he wanted to give the Garber character "a greater challenge", so he asked the studio to portray Garber as a cop who was demoted to train dispatcher. Ludicrous, and seriously stretching the bounds of artistic license! As the author of several novels, I can say with some authority that "suspension of disbelief" has definite limits, and I told Terry that I strongly took issue with this apparent gross departure from both the novel and the 1974 film. I visited him during production, and I said--then--that messing with the storyline by introducing a backstory that does not appear in the original work is just asking for trouble. As for the Travolta pic, he is aboard what appears to be an NTT, in daylight, but the annunciator behind and above him reads, "42 Street"! Come ON now! I'll have to look into THAT when I get some advance footage (Terry knows I'm a railfan and as a Christmas gift, is slipping me some P123 goodies--I'll post 'em as they come along--lol!)...and see the photography sequences and whether the proofs are the same... Geez, I hope they don't butcher this remake like some other horrors Hollywood has attempted...thoughts? |
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