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[marktmurphy]

Isn't Thomas Crown without the love story angle just James Bond?

[hrabb04]

This sucks. No Rene Russo. How many of us guys tuned in the first time just to finally see her naked? How many of us went home from seeing it very happy moviegoers? Gee, who do we get to see naked in this one? I'll bet they make it PG-13. Maybe they can have Denis Leary on vacation in Istanbul and teams up with Crown for a car chase.

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Isn't Thomas Crown without the love story angle just James Bond?

Er, no!

Similar but fundamentally different.

Did you draw the same comparison when McQueen played it?

The characters may appear to be similar but the structure of the films and what they do are very different.

[marktmurphy]

But the structure changes without a love story, no? This just sounds (on initial observations alone, admittedly) like a heist movie, with no interesting thief-falling-in-love-with-investigator angle. So you have a have a character who looks and acts like James Bond (and can even contractually wear a dinner jacket now!) in a glamorous foreign location in an exciting heist movie.

But please, tell me more of the structure of this upcoming movie.

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How does Brosnan's falling out with EON affect this, I wonder? Sony prepared to back him all the way on this, or am I missing something?

I wouldn't think it'd affect it.

Sony would avoid releasing The Topkapi Affair at the same time as Casino Royale, but I daresay that would be it.

I always found it interesting that news of Brosnan renewing his contract with MGM (including the deal for the Thomas Crown sequel) followed just a few days after word leaked of him being dropped from the role of Bond.

[DLibrasnow]

I just wish they would come up with an original Thomas Crown movie rather than ripping off other movies....

I doubt this version will be superior to the classic TOPKAPI from 1964 with Peter Ustinov and Maximilan Schell.

[JCRendle]

http://www.comingsoo...ws.php?id=19132

[spynovelfan]

"Pierce still looks good in a tux." Slightly reductive?

I hope it gets made - I enjoyed the first.

[DamnCoffee]

"Arnie to do Terminator 4 cameo" cool.

[DLibrasnow]

Good news. I wonder how it will compare to the classic TOPKAPI?

[quiller]

tall ho

[Qwerty]

Good news. I'm looking forward to it.

[killkenny kid]

Good news. I'm looking forward to it.

indeed, I'm really looking forward to it.

[doublenoughtspy]

Good point Darren.

I wonder too, if they will attempt a variation on the hanging by a rope stunt, because I'm sure people will accuse them of ripping off Mission: Impossible, when it fact the Tom Cruise M:I was ripping off Topkapi.

Then again, series creator Bruce Geller did acknowledge that he based Mission: Impossible on the movie.

[spynovelfan]

Perhaps we should merge this thread with http://debrief.comma...p...opkapi&st=0 ?

[Loomis]

If McTiernan is in, so am I. Otherwise....

[dinovelvet]

If McTiernan is in, so am I. Otherwise....

Hmm...I think McTiernan is still persona non grata in Hollywood right now with that whole wiretapping business. Is that still going on? Anyway, I wouldn't mind seeing Richard Shepard (The Matador) do the job

[Loomis]

Hmm...I think McTiernan is still persona non grata in Hollywood right now with that whole wiretapping business. Is that still going on? Anyway, I wouldn't mind seeing Richard Shepard (The Matador) do the job

Oh, yes, that wiretapping thing. From McT's Wikipedia page:

On April 3, 2006, McTiernan was charged in federal court with lying to the FBI during an interview in the wiretapping investigation involving Anthony Pellicano. He was arraigned and pled guilty on April 17, 2006, and is the 14th person charged in this case.

McTiernan was charged with an information, rather than in grand jury indictment, which means he waived his right to an indictment and suggests he may have reached either a prior plea agreement with prosecutors or some sort of cooperating agreement.

McTiernan will be sentenced on July 31, 2006, and faces a maximum of five years in federal prison. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he more likely will receive six months or less, plus three years probation and a $250,000 fine.

Now, whether this means his name is mud in Hollywood and/or would rule him out for THOMAS CROWN 2.... I don't know. Obviously, he couldn't direct from gaol, but I somehow doubt that he'll get anything like that maximum five-year stretch. We'll have to see.

Shepard is an inspired idea, though, and I could certainly see that happening. Great suggestion.

[Qwerty]

Perhaps we should merge this thread with http://debrief.comma...p...opkapi&st=0 ?

Done.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Good news. I wonder how it will compare to the classic TOPKAPI?

Good point Darren.

I wonder too, if they will attempt a variation on the hanging by a rope stunt, because I'm sure people will accuse them of ripping off Mission: Impossible, when it fact the Tom Cruise M:I was ripping off Topkapi.

Then again, series creator Bruce Geller did acknowledge that he based Mission: Impossible on the movie.

Wouldn't surprise me if the ending is different in that the

Spoiler

"gang" don't end up in gaol.

[deth]

when is this film supposed to start production??

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Good news. I wonder how it will compare to the classic TOPKAPI?

Good point Darren.

I wonder too, if they will attempt a variation on the hanging by a rope stunt, because I'm sure people will accuse them of ripping off Mission: Impossible, when it fact the Tom Cruise M:I was ripping off Topkapi.

Then again, series creator Bruce Geller did acknowledge that he based Mission: Impossible on the movie.

Wouldn't surprise me if the ending is different in that the

Spoiler

"gang" don't end up in gaol.

Well, the 1999 TCA didn't follow the ending of the 1968 TCA so I would be surprised if this new film is faithful to the 1964 one.

[dinovelvet]

If I can get my head around this correctly, is this a remake that is also a sequel to another remake?

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If I can get my head around this correctly, is this a remake that is also a sequel to another remake?

Correct - but what's more is that the original Topkapi is based on a novel by Eric Ambler called The Light of Day.

[spynovelfan]

Correct - but what's more is that the original Topkapi is based on a novel by Eric Ambler called The Light of Day.

As pointed out in the first post of this thread.

[dodge]

If McTiernan is in, so am I. Otherwise....

Hmm...I think McTiernan is still persona non grata in Hollywood right now with that whole wiretapping business. Is that still going on? Anyway, I wouldn't mind seeing Richard Shepard (The Matador) do the job

Sorry, I missed out on that. What wiretapping business?

[dodge]

Peeling back the layers of Thomas Crown...I keep thinking back to Brozza's original plan for his Bond: no shirtlessness, oh Lord no--perhaps a single button undone to show a discreet flash of chest hair. Just peeling back the layers. Dan jumps in buck naked--physically, emotionally. Unless PB can do the same, leave 9/11 out of it. We've all had our layers peeled plenty by now.

[doublenoughtspy]

Sorry, I missed out on that. What wiretapping business?

The Pelicano case.

McTiernan did admit to paying Pelicano to illegally wiretap a producer.

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According to the Variety article about Mamma Mia!, John Rogers scripted The Topkapi Affair. I just hope it's not the same John Rogers who brought us such gems as Catwoman, The Core, the upcoming Transformers and numerous episodes of Cosby...

A director will be announced soon and filming will commence by year's end.

[Qwerty]

I just hope it's not the same John Rogers who brought us such gems as Catwoman...

Gah.