No, some things are best left alone. Dad’s Army is one of them.
A big screen version of classic TV sitcom Dad’s Army is to be made, according to reports.
The Sunday Times’ arts editor Richard Brooks reported that actor Toby Jones would star as Captain Mainwaring and Bill Nighy would play Sergeant Wilson.
The original was comedy gold and the original cast made it what it was. Leave it alone. Why do they have to meddle? This is one I will not watch.
I can’t believe they would do this.
It will never be Dad’s Army the original writers are dead the cast are long gone and can never be replaced a film version will be an insult to the original and it is a case of some things are best left in the past as the gold they were.
Dad’s Army is one of my favourite programmes of all time but a modern film version NO NO NO NO NO.
I don’t know, the remake of Star Trek (movies) was brilliantly done and kept the genre fresh and alive.
Not saying this will happen here, but it can be done and done well.
Yes, the Star Trek reboot worked – probably because it had already spawned a whole set of sequels and prequels. But Dad’s Army has a unique flavour precisely because of the original cast. Rather than messing with this, they should be looking for new, fresh ideas to film.
And also because of the concept, which I think is one that’ll struggle to impress a modern audience.
Very true. It was a production for it’s time, when for many the war was still part of living memory, and for their children recent history.
Although I was born after the war (’49), I grew up with comic books replete with tales of derring-do in the battle against ‘the Hun’, so for my generation and thereabouts, ‘Dad’s Army’ resonated in a way that will mean nothing to the present generations.
Leave well alone. It was a classic, and classics can rarely be re-invented.
Quite so, the Star Trek remakes were more by way of ongoing evolution rather than remake, plus Star Trek has been so diluted outward from it’s original format it is easier to get away with the fiddling.
Dads Army has a very strong unique identity ,in that only one set of people have ever played each character that’s what makes it’s format special and Space and the future is a slightly less specific area, and can be manipulated accordingly.
World War Two is Historic and set in stone, therefore there is only a certain direction one can go with it.
With the greatest respect QM not quite the same scenario at all.
Mainwaring will be under-manager at the local Islamic bank. The female bank manager, will, of course, never be seen, but will be referred to with great respect and Mainwaring’s fear of her will be a running gag.
Jones will run the Halal butchers shop and Walker will be a dealer in exotic silks and running a black market in salwar kameez made from stolen RAF parachutes.
There will be lots of talk about how the Germans should be welcomed, after all we sent our boys over there so it is only fair that their boys and girls should come over here. Indeed what could be better than a reich stretching from Moscow to Manchester!
Hodges, a keen early supporter of the common agricultural policy, is know to have replaced his picture of the King and Queen with one of Angela Hitler, but this is thought, perhaps, to be a step too far!
They made a Dads Army cinema film back in the early seventies. I remember going to watch it and getting a D on an essay I had to write in English language class about the film afterwards. The new film cannot work because the standards of morality and ethics known by young teenagers at the time of the series and film are no longer taught or appreciated by the latest generation in the U.K.
A lot of the old popular series will be remade but to ensure that current youf understands how it was always multicultural , vibrant and diverse.
So it will not , for a start, be hideously white. Excepting the Wermacht of course. Who will see the errors of their ways after a diet of halal sauerkraut.