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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<\/a><\/i> (1947) is not my favorite Danny Kaye movie \u2014 that would easily have to be The Court Jester<\/a><\/i> (1956), which has long ranked as one of my top ten films of all time<\/a> \u2014 but it\u2019s one of several Kaye films that got played a lot<\/i> at the Chattaway household when my siblings and I were growing up, and it\u2019s one of several Kaye films that we quote in casual conversation all the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it was with some apprehension that I greeted the news, back in March 2003<\/a>, that Steven Spielberg was thinking of directing a remake of the film starring Jim Carrey. Well, now<\/i> the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says the project has been handed over to Mark Waters, director of the two best Lindsay Lohan<\/a> films to date \u2014 Freaky Friday<\/i> and Mean Girls<\/i> \u2014 and, uh, Owen Wilson.<\/p>\n

From the over-the-top Carrey to the more laid-back Wilson? That suggests a radical rethinking of the project\u2019s whole style and tone \u2014 and an even more radical departure from Kaye\u2019s brand of comedy. Say what you will about Kaye or Carrey, but they at least share an ability to assume multiple personae, which is essential to this story of a daydreamer with an overactive imagination; it is not so clear what Wilson would do with this material.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"