Is Bewitched with Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman going to be worth seeing? Or will it follow in the long tradition of sucky movies based on tv shows that were cool. (e.g. Dragnet, Wild Wild West, The Addams Family, Lost In Space, The Flintstones.) Please don't let there be a drug ring or terrorist conspiracy that needs to be foiled by Samantha and Darrin.

What should the new Bewitched have going for it, logically?

1. Nicole Kidman. Always wonderful, any movie she is in is worth a look.
2. The understated comic talent of Will Ferrell. (i wonder if they'll replace him halfway through the movie with Will Smith, and nobody notices.)
3. A Nora Ephron screenplay.
4. Michael Caine. Everything i said about Nicole is doubly true for this man.
5. Shirley MacLaine as Endora.

However, i don't have high hopes for the remake. i watched the disappointing trailers. The screenplay is apparently a movie-within-a-movie plot, with Ferrell and Kidman playing playing actors in a Bewitched remake. But Kidman's character is a witch in real life too. That augurs ill for a fan of the original like myself.

Also, it looks like they're going to fuck with the original theme song melody. If you're going to go old school by doing a remake in the first place, go old school all the way. i don't know why moviemakers insist on going after an audience of people nostalgic for an old series, then refuse to give them what they want.

In other unrelated entertainment news, tonight's lie of the day from E.T. Tonight is the following:

Brad Pitt says he thinks his seven year marriage to Jennifer Aniston was a total success.

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