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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Tonya S. Holly is directing a remake of Arthur Penn’s Bonnie & Clyde. The film, tentatively titled The Story of Bonnie & Clyde, is being produced by Cypress Moon Studios. This would all be fine, it’s a classic film, this sort of thing happens. The giant disaster is that Holly and Cypress Moon are currently in talks with Kevin Zegers to play Clyde Barrows and Hillary Duff to play Bonnie.

When asked what they thought of Cypress Moon’s casting decisions ten out of ten people I know were outraged. Citing that the Arthur Penn film is a classic that should not be sullied by Duff’s smug face. Others cited that the film was done well once, why do it again. While others, who believe in the post-modern BS of the remake, said that this was the cultural equivalent of the “go-away” bomb. We can’t know any of these things for sure, all we do know is that this film will not be good.

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