Wedding bells are ringing in the trailer for HBO Max’s Father Of The Bride remake
This time around, Andy Garcia takes on the titular role in the Warner Bros. film
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Thirty years after Steve Martin played the titular father in Charles Shyer’s Father Of The Bride, Warner Bros. has shared the trailer for its updated take on the classic rom-com. Andy Garcia stars in the remake alongside the legendary Gloria Estefan, Adria Arjona, Diego Boneta, Isabela Merced, and SNL’s Chloe Fineman.
There’s been some fun updates to the film, starting with the narrative now focusing on a non-white family. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Garcia dives into how this will shake up things up and add in new dynamics.
“There was both an honor and an obligation to deliver a story that’s within the Latin cultures, in this case, the Cuban and the Mexican, trying to relate to one another,” García says. “There’s an obligation to do it right, represent it without stereotypes, in a way that, although it’s culturally specific, its themes are universal.”
Secondly, in addition to all of the drama that comes with planning a wedding, García’s Billy and Gloria Estefan’s Ingrid are experiencing problems in their own marriage. After a year of attending couples therapy (mediated by Veep’s Matt Walsh), Ingrid is now pushing for divorce.
In the same interview with EW, Estefan says, “She’s pushing a button—that D-word with divorce. She’s trying to push him to wake up because a year of therapy certainly hadn’t woken him up. But that decision is a tough one for a Latina to make.”
In addition to Martin, Father Of The Bride (1991) stars Diane Keaton, Kieran Culkin, Martin Short, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley. This ‘90s version was of course a remake itself; it was shared 40 years after Vincente Minnelli’s adaption of the Edward Streeter novel and it starred Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor. The 1950 version of the film received several Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.
Father Of The Bride will premiere exclusively on HBO Max on June 16.
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I always thought they should have made a Father of the Groom where Kieran Culkin gets married.
They kind of did. It was one of those pandemic Zoom things.
Okay, this isn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
When did Chloe Fineman leave SNL? I thought she was still on?
She is. I mean you can do movies even if you are on SNL.
She’s still on SNL. I imagine they filmed this while SNL was on break.
She still is. The author probably should have used the term “cast mate” instead of alum since alum makes it seem she has left the show.
Cast member. “Cast mate” would have implied she was a “cast mate” of someone else already mentioned.
Yup. Looks like they fixed the mislabel. 🙂
Sounds hilarious
I’m just glad the bride isn’t 21 in this series. That was a bit of a yeesh moment in the Steve Martin version.
I appreciated that it was a plot point though. Pretty much everyone is like “isn’t this fast and aren’t you a little young?”
Eh, 30 years ago 21 was eyebrow-raising but not particularly yeesh-worthy. 100 years ago a woman would be considered a spinster of she wasn’t married by 25.
I don’t even recognize Andy in the trailer – or that photo.F you, Time.
So the big selling point of this remake is that the cast is two shades darker than Diane Keaton?
I do wonder in how many countries besides the U.S. would this cast be considered “non-white.”
It just seems insulting to say, “finally, representation for non-whites” about a movie starring Andy Garcia who has been playing characters of European descent in major studio releases for over 30 years. His character in Night Falls on Manhattan was named Sean Casey, son of NYC cop Liam Casey. His character in When a Man Loves a Woman was named “Michael Green.” I don’t think anyone would have described these characters as “non-white.”I say this as an Andy Garcia fan who wouldn’t hate a new Father of the Bride, pigment cannot possibly be the selling point for this movie.
I rewatched the Steve Martin films at some point over the pandemic and they mostly hold up. Very funny and sweet thanks to the strong cast with Martin, Diane Keaton, and Martin Short, though his character would probably not go over too well in 2022, even if Franck is absolutely hilarious. This looks cute and I’ll check it out!
I expected them to be very Cheaper By The Dozen wacky/slapstick-y, but was surprised by how grounded the first one was (save for the scene where Steve Martin tries to get back an envelope). The second one dialed up the silliness, IIRC, not much but still noticeable (like Steve Martin trying to stop a wrecking ball from destroying his home).
Interesting. I can see how it helps marketing if it’s pitched as a remake, but this does seem to be a perfectly charming film with its own story and its own comedic tone. Then again, I’m not familiar with the original original 1950 Father of the Bride, but there was probably a similar slew of difference between that film and the 1991 ‘remake’ so I suppose it’s all par for the course. Just amuses me that it’s such a universal scenario that you could easily get away with not calling it a remake of anything
There were a good chunk of lines taken almost wholesale from the 1950 version to 1991. Mostly the stuff the father said directly camera. A lot of the other situations around it are different.This almost feels a little more My Big Fat Greek Wedding with the emphasis on clashing cultures, but that could be an oversell in the quotes from the actors.
I always get the old FOTB mixed up with Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? they are…different films.
Wow. Garcia now looks like his face was made from a composite of Kevin Kline and Alan Arkin.
Initially I thought it was Harry Shearer.
Nice to see Judd Hirsch getting work.
Is no one else actually clicking on the trailer and noticing that the video embed is also timecoded to start at 2:27 for the 2:32 video?When you go the link it’s there too. At the end of the address where it says =147s, that’s 147 seconds, which is two minutes and twenty seven seconds.
Finally a showcase for comedic powerhouse Andy Garcia
Muerte a los gusanos.
“Thirty years after Steve Martin played the titular father in Charles Shyer’s Father Of The Bride, Warner Bros. has shared the trailer for its updated take on the classic rom-com.”Does Father of the Bride qualify as a “rom-com”? I mean, I get why someone would refer to it as one, but the central relationship is between a father and daughter, and there isn’t much question of the romantic couples depicted ending up together. On the other hand, it certainly looks and feels like a traditional rom-com, and I don’t really know what else I’d call it. “Light family drama,” I guess?
There’s been some fun updates to the film, starting with the narrative now focusing on a non-white family.
Truly groundbreaking stuff…
Sounds OK but it’s not Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor.
Are all film comedies now headed straight to streaming? This seems like one they’d try in theaters, but I guess not.