Chalk it up under the mother of all bad ideas. Madonna wants to remake Casablanca and set it in Iraq. Good for delivering a political message, perhaps, but terrible for soiling the good name of a classic.
Madonna isn’t a terrible actress, but she needs the absolutely right material in order to work. When left to carry a film on her own acting chops, she usually falls flat. But watch her in Evita or A League of Their Own and you see an actress who can shine if directed properly. But Casablanca? She even apparently wants to take on the Ingrid Bergman role for herself.
Ignoring for a moment the fact that Madonna is roughly 30 years older than Bergman was when she played the iconic role, who in the world would she get to fill Bogart’s shoes as rick? Is there an actor today with that sort of charisma on screen? George Clooney might be the only real possibility, but he seems too smart to put himself in a no-win-situation like that.
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