High Noon Remake is on the Way

Hey, they did it with “3:10 to Yuma” and the world didn’t explode, so why not do it with “High Noon”? Well for one, everyone and their mom has heard and seen (or at least heard) of “High Noon”, and everyone and their mom didn’t necessarily even know “3:10 to Yuma” existed before the remake with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. But don’t try to tell Mark Headley, Christopher Mitchum and Toni Covington that, because the trio have just acquired the remake rights for “High Noon” at the American Film Market. Hell, I’ve never even seen all of “High Noon”, and as a result don’t have any real attachments to it, but even I know this is a really bad idea.

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Rights were secured from actress Karen Sharp Kramer, wife of the late Stanley Kramer, producer of the iconic original about a town marshal forced to face a gang of killers by himself.

The newly formed Los Angeles-based High Noon Prods. is seeking a director and a star to play the lead and hopes to begin shooting early next year with a target budget of about $20 million, Headley said.

Wow, just $20 million? That’s not going to get you a “3:10 to Yuma” A-list type cast, guys.

Actually, this isn’t the first time “High Noon” has been remade. There was a TV movie in 2000 starring Tom Skerritt and Susanna Thompson, but since no one is talking about that one, I’m going to guess it wasn’t all that successful.

The 1952 original starred Gary Cooper as a retiring lawman about to leave town with his new bride, who has to seek allies among the fearful townspeople when an outlaw he put in prison returns with his gang to take revenge.