Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake, The Hustle, gets its first trailer
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Anne Hathaway’s 2019 kicked off with one of the biggest cinematic misfires in recent memory, but the Oscar winner’s got several high-profile projects in her quiver, none of which, fingers crossed, take place (spoiler alert) inside a video game. Not only will Hathaway star in both Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches and a new Sesame Street feature, but she’ll also headline The Hustle alongside Rebel Wilson. A remake (of sorts) of 1988's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the tale of two mismatched con artists received its first trailer today.
Hathaway plays a lethal, refined swindler with the straightforward philosophy that “no man will ever believe a woman is smarter than he is.” That’s the lesson she imparts to Rebel Wilson’s sloppy, up-and-coming grifter, who undergoes a fierce training regimen as the duo prepare to fleece a twentysomething tech mogul played by Alex Sharp, who, in addition to headlining last year’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties, will star in HBO’s upcoming Game Of Thrones prequel.
The Hustle will nick your wallet when it hits theaters on May 10.
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Question: Is this the most unnecessary remake of all time?
i love “dirty rotten scoundrels” so much. hope this is good.
i do too, but Rebel Wilson’s schtick is tired.
It was tired when Fatty Arbuckle did it; now, it’s just sad
“If this person would just scoot over. Would you mind, Sir? Sir?”That was pretty good.
Yes, it was. That and “Release the peasants” are both very Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
MGM is still around? Huh.
As a trademark owned by someone else, yes. MGM Studios is now owned by a holding company created by its former creditors, and mostly co-produces with Sony, Paramount, and Warners. Its main assets are the Bond franchise and its massive back catalog.
Coincidentally, my main asset is also my immense back catalog.
Hey, I know you guys sometimes get off on spoiling things for people but the spoiler about Serenity is visible in the blurb on the homepage. Whether the movie sucks or not, don’t be a dick for absolutely no reason. Unless that’s a fake spoiler, in which case, that’s a little funnier but, as it’s reasonable not to want things to be spoiled (particularly in a movie that nobody’s going to watch before it hits cable) maybe just not on the homepage?And if it’s a real spoiler…just…why? Maybe examine that impulse.
Also they are talking about a few different movies so when you just throw out “spoiler alert” it’s not clear what movie is being spoiled. GREAT now I can’t enjoy Serenity.
Spoiler alert: you wouldn’t have enjoyed it anyway.
if you’re absurdly blaming me:it links to the review of Serenity
it only talks about her recent dud (sentence structure)
she hasn’t been in a movie since Ocean’s Eight, and before that since 2016
No, I agree with your original post. But I didn’t hover and examine the link, I didn’t remember she was in it until it was too late, and I don’t follow her career closely enough to know it’s been her only recent film. I don’t actually care about Serenity being spoiled, and generally think people are a little too crazy about spoilers, but the way that first paragraph is written is kinda shitty. Since apparently the twist is the only thing about that movie.
and it’s visible on the homepage to people who aren’t even planning to read this article. But really it’s the impulse…like just why? Spoiling Serenity accomplishes nothing in that first paragraph, it’s just a perverse antisocial act of trollery.The A.V. Club…a perverse antisocial act of trollery[!]
Yeah, it’s a cunt move. (I’m not as linguistically gifted as you)
That new Star Wars movie looks cool SPOILER ALERT Iron Man dies at the end (of another unrelated movie).
I couldn’t believe that (VAGUE SPOILER) that guy was related to that other guy in that particular way!
AV Club is usually really good about spoilers. Something about this movie has super cheesed them off, and they’ve really gone above and beyond making sure no one gets to enjoy the film.
I think you’re right. did you see the review of the Halsey SNL the other day? The umbrage with a pretty competent if occasionally sloppy episode was so personal, and really above and beyond…it’s like: dear reviewer who is getting paid to do this, these people aren’t making this stuff to personally offend you. Moreover, if it was a movie like Lust, Caution where the ending is plain immoral I could understand…what’s so upsetting about a derivative piece of garbage arriving in early January?
I don’t read SNL reviews. I don’t need to be reminded weekly that SNL is still on and still mediocre. “Guest Host Blank Shines On An Otherwise Banal SNL”. How many times can that headline be written before we finally just give up?
Lust, Caution’s ending is immoral?
Serenity came out in 2005.
I know, 9 years after Crash
Yep fuck them hardcore for that one. I was all set to stream that shitburger years from now.
Thank you! I don’t even come close to understanding the impulse.
Agreed, this was egregious & willfully gross. Maybe you (A.V.C.) didn’t like the movie, but let me decide for myself.
I bet they don’t get conned by a man at the end.
Sort of. Turns out the guy just wanted to bang them.
At first! But after he banged her…he realized he really….really…felt something for her….
Nah, now you’re getting into Shyamalan territory.
Well Miss Hathaway has personal experience of that, so it might be a bit too close to home for her.
Even odds on whether Hathaway’s “refined” accent turns out to be a con later in the movie and she actually talks like she’s from Joisey or something.
It won’t be overtly stated, but there will likely be a huge clue that Hathaway’s character is directly related to The Jackal.
Hell, I like a good con game movie – this could be good. I recently rewatched Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and it holds up pretty well….. And that movie was a remake too, of Bedtime Story, starring David Niven, Marlon Brando and Shirley Jones, which for some reason I’ve never seen.
I have to see that now.
It’s a “true” remake. It’s almost exactly the same, scene-for-scene, and much of the dialogue was retained from Bedtime Story too. There’s really only a few major differences, which I won’t spoil here. I definitely prefer Scoundrels — because Steve Martin and Michael Caine — but anyone who likes it would almost assuredly enjoy the original too.
Keeping it vague, but definite spoiler for a 30 year-old movie, and possible spoiler for an upcoming movie.If this keeps all the major narrative beats in tact from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, does it risk getting dragged over the coals for undermining the core premise in the trailer? “No man will ever believe a woman is smarter than he is.”
Speaking of Hathaway and con artist remake/sequels, did Ocean’s 8 do well enough for Warners to make another one? I liked the cast, and I thought it did a nice job of capturing the vibe of the Soderbergh ones.
Great cast, boring film. Made 300 WW on 70 mill budget, so not great.
I’m excited for this movie purely for the fact that Rebel Wilson is the first plus-sized woman in a caper film.
I just rewatched dirty rotten scoundrels for the first time since I was a teenager in the late nineties. It was on comedy central A LOT. Its perfection. Trying to remake it is a bad idea.
Except for the music I find Dirty Rotten Scoundrels an almost perfect movie. The cast is amazing and the ending, love it. But that music, oy. Just play Django Reinhardt for the whole thing or something. I feel like it’s a sleeper when people talk about Steve Martin or Michael Caine. It’s so good.
and has one of the best trailers ever, too.
I love this film so much. Everyone is note perfect, and there are so many great scenes and lines. The reveal of Martin being glued to the wall is a favourite, as is Headley’s ‘Unfortunately, Randy is a mute’ line at the end, and Anton Rodgers responding to Martin’s ‘She caught me with another woman! You’re French, you’ll understand!’ with ‘To be with another woman – zat ees French. To be caught – zat ees American,’ but the scene I love the most is the one between Martin and Rodgers when Martin is in the jail cell trying to remember the name of the one person he knows in the town and riffing on every possible permutation. His manic attempts to remember, juxtaposed with Rodgers’ bemused expression, and the way Rodgers finally says the correct name, kills me every time.
“Lawrence … Lawrenceton.”I’m also a big fan of Caine “testing” Freddie’s supposedly numb legs by repeatedly whacking them with a switch. When he’s finally done, Headley’s character says, “Look at him, he’s so happy he’s crying!”
I’m a big fan of the original, but this sucked. I think Anne Hatheway is gorgeous, but this falls completely flat on it’s face. I didn’t see either the charm of Michael Caine or any signs of the comedic genius of Steve Martin.
Who was Steve Martin going to con if he was obese?Sponsored by “junk food that is killing you”.
If you have seen the original and the new one is same, the conning has not even begun yet.
Sounds like someone needs the genital cuff.We own perhaps seven DVDs; DRS is one of them 😉
“Excuse me, may I go to the bathroom first?”
“…thankyou.”
I don’t know, doesn’t look too bad but they’ve got their work cut out for them if they’re going to beat Steve Martin’s Ruprecht.
Long time ago I had a roommate who was Ruprecht for Halloween. All night he carried around a trident and a fork with a wine cork stuck in it.
Steve Martin in general.
May I go to the bathroom?
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Thaaaaank you.
And now I’m missing Glenne Headley all over again 🙁
She was such an underrated actress.
Yeah.
I feel like Steve Martin dressed like this for at least 25 years.
I was just thinking that I hope they dedicate this to her.
She died? I had no idea. That’s such sad news. She was amazing in DRS.
twentysomething tech mogulThe greatest swindlers (or more likely Swindlr) of them all.
I can’t believe this trailer didn’t end with Hathaway/Wilson pushing an old man off a pier into the water.
Is it really a reboot of Scoundrels or is it just a movie about con artists? Neither has the combination of charm and comedy chops that Martin and Caine had, so trying to say it’s a reboot is dooming it to failure
And the plot doesn’t really look all that related, aside from the fact it is about two con artists.
The train sequence in this trailer is a direct take on one from the original film, and the visuals of Hathaway’s little seaside villa are almost exactly the same as Caine’s.
I didn’t watch the trailer. I assumed the article would reference any specifics
Fair enough. Now that you mention it, it’s kinda weird that the article doesn’t mention how many scenes shown in the trailer are, particularly when it comes to the visuals, glaringly similar. What’s particularly interesting to me is that Hathaway is very obviously channeling Caine but Wilson doesn’t seem to be taking any influence from Martin.
Hathaway and Rudolph or Pohler would make more sense as they can actually act
Rudolph as in Maya Rudolph? Because I can really see that. She’s got some of that Steve Martin, just-on-the-edge-of-hysteria energy.
Yup. Maya would be perfect
Anne Hathaway stole every scene she was in with Ocean’s Eight. Rebel Wilson has also appeared in movies.
[SPOILER] Hathaway walking into the gang’s hideout and saying “You guys are so fucked” was both funny and damn sexy.
I get that it’s a shitty movie, but what do you really get out of being an asshole and spoiling something for someone?
Just make a movie with Anne Hathaway doing catburglar/con-job things, alone front and center. She has the gravitas to carry the movie by herself. Rebel Wilson seems to be unnecessary extra baggage.
I was a big fan of Hathaway as Selina Kyle in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, but she didn’t get the chance to do enough cat-burglar things, so I’m here for it.
This seems fun. I note in passing (as have others) that the original film’s ending would be an … interesting resolution for this remake to take on; the trailer seems to suggest more violence than I remember from the original (though I could be misremembering) … and Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway are both between 5-10 years younger than Steve Martin was when he made that movie (and of course Michael Caine was older still).
I feel like Hathaway Vs. Wilson is a far less even contest than Caine Vs. Martin.And that’s not a slight on Rebel, just saying Anne Hathaway seems to have a lot more of an advantage than Michael Caine did.Maybe Rebel Wilson should have been the rich one to balance it out.
Can’t lie; Rebel Wilson throwing the bag off the cliff made me giggle.
I don’t dislike the casting, but if I were going to remake Dirty Rotten, I’d do my damndest to sign Cate Blanchett and Kate McKinnon. They’d be perfection.
I just have to say…(long pause)Thank you.
I’m a big fan of Anne Hathaway, and am kind of okay with Rebel Wilson being a success even if I don’t hugely enjoy her work (gotta support a fellow Aussie), but ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ is one of my all-time favourite films, and I don’t want to see a slavish remake of it. If you compare Steve Martin’s train scene to the one in this trailer, you’ll see how much funnier his version is.
Cute, but I wouldn’t have blown that garbage bag gag in the trailer.
Excuse me, may I go to the bathroom.Thank you