{"id":198834,"date":"2025-12-24T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198834\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:01:13","slug":"josh-safdie-talks-paramount-passing-on-their-48-hrs-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198834\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Safdie talks Paramount passing on their 48 Hrs. remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Safdie\u2019s 48 Hrs remake<\/p>\n

The AV Club<\/a> reports that Josh Safdie revealed at one point, he, his brother Benny and their writing partner Ronald Bronstein were set to remake 48 Hrs.<\/a> at Paramount with Jerrod Carmichael attached. In 2019, at the time Uncut Gems was released, Safdie told the publication that their script for the remake had evolved into more of an original story. According to Sadie, \u201cWalter Hill came to a\u00a0Gems\u00a0screening. I\u2019d heard that he had seen\u00a0Good Time\u00a0and was a fan of that. He really liked\u00a0Uncut Gems, too.\u00a0The Driver\u00a0is one of my favorite movies.\u00a048 Hrs\u00a0is great, but\u00a0The Driver\u00a0is his masterpiece. And I said, \u2018Let\u2019s just get this out of the way immediately. We\u2019re not remaking your movie.\u2019 And he said, \u2018Okay. It\u2019s weird, I watch these two movies and think that these guys are not short on original ideas. Like, why would they need to do a remake?\u2019 [Laughs.] So what happened was, we wrote a few drafts for the studio, and it just wasn\u2019t a remake. We tried, but I just don\u2019t know how to do it. Maybe the general structure was kind of\u00a048 Hrs. And there was a cop and an inmate. But it\u2019s going to be re-shifted into something original.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paramount passes on the original script<\/p>\n

Recently, Safdie revisited the 48 Hrs. remake story on Deadline\u2019s Crew Call Podcast<\/a> and said that after their script became something original, Paramount passed on them. He explained, \u201cWe wrote a remake of\u00a048 Hrs\u00a0for Paramount, and they read it, and they were like, \u2018This isn\u2019t a remake, what is this? This is an original film.\u2019 We\u2019re like, \u2018Sorry, we tried.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Josh Safdie\u2019s Marty Supreme<\/p>\n

The Safdie brothers have ventured off into their separate projects and Josh Sadfie\u2019s Marty Supreme is due for Christmas. Our Chris Bumbray raved about the film with a 10 score and his review<\/a> exclaiming, \u201cThrough it all, Safdie\u2019s command of the audience is impressive, with him making the film such an intense experience I felt like I was in the midst of a drug-fuelled binge while watching it. He keeps your pulse pounding, and it\u2019s the kind of movie one is tempted to immediately revisit after the credits roll. For me, it\u2019s the movie of the year, and if film as a form seems to be dying off, at least there are guys like Safdie around who still deserve their place in the pantheon of great directors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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