DiCaprio & Maguire In Third Man Remake?

Published on October 27, 2009 by Alex Wagner · View Comments

Annex - Welles Orson - Third Man The Let me stress before I go any further that this is just a rumour at this point. The rumour goes like this…

It seems Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire could be up for collaboration with screenwriter Steven Knight to bring to the screen a remake of the seminal film noir classic The Third Man starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton.

The 1949 original is a bonafide classic and if you haven’t seen it, SHAME ON YOU!

It is the story of a man that arrives in Vienna with the promise of a job. When he gets there he discovers his friend has been killed, or has he? He realises that not everything in post war Vienna is as it seems.

Orson Welles is fantastic in it and if indeed they are planning to remake it I hope that DiCaprio doesn’t think he can match the performance by any length.

I very rarely label films as perfect but The Third Man comes pretty damn close and as much as I like DiCaprio I really can’t see any point in remaking this.

So I for one hope it’s not true.