Babette’s Feast (Remake)

[Himmel]

Alexander Payne has attached to direct a re-imagining of Babette’s Feast, the 1988 Oscar-winning Danish Film which Gabriel Axel wrote and directed from a story by Karen Blixen.

The project was set up by Unique Features, the production shingle that former New Line founder Bob Shaye created with his late partner Michael Lynne. Shaye will produce with Jennifer Wachtell under the Unique banner. The script will be written by Guy Branum, whose credits include The Other Two and The Mindy Project. Benni Korzen and Josi Konski will also produce.

The film will be set in a religious community in small-town Minnesota, where two older, unmarried sisters accept a refugee, who leads them to confront their regrets over an extraordinary meal.

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[Bucky]

If it leads to more people discovering this classic, why not

[Cremildo]

Good luck equaling the original.

Kinda disappointing to see Payne making something so unoriginal, but I'll watch it regardless.

[GRD43L]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Good luck equaling the original.

Kinda disappointing to see Payne making something so unoriginal, but I'll watch it regardless.

Likewise. Watched the original couple of months ago and liked it.

[EvaDK]

That's just bizarre.

Gabriel Axel's film (Babette's Gæstebud/Babette's Feast) is probably shown in the telly over here every 5th year or something like that, on one of the minor artistic channels. I had no idea that there was any interest for this film outside a very small community of film lovers.

[AaronJ]

I'm both excited and somewhat disappointed by this news. Excited for obvious reasons, but disappointed because I almost never see the point of taking a brilliant film, like this one, and remaking it. I mean, why not remake bad films, and make them better? Granted, some material just isn't going to be salvageable at all. But some certainly is.

Oh well. I'm sure I'll see it, either way.