You keep saying this. But what makes you think a story about a Jazz singer is now a revisiting "for a modern audience" and has "resonance and entertainment value for 2023"? And it didn't in 1980 or 1965 or 1945? Because they made two of the characters specifically black, specifically not white, but still in the past (I can't tell if it is still set in the 1930s specifically)? You really think that is all it takes? This may be fantastic, I look forward to finding out, but Pal Joey, no matter what the rewrite, is not a musical known to or being clamored for by "modern" audiences, regardless of what race the lead characters are.
Star Is Born never uses the same songs or script either, and the characters vary. But it is a rare example where the same property is remade and reinvented for new singing/acting stars and musical styles based on the era it takes place. That's not what's happening here at all. That doesn't make it good or not good. But it's not comparable. |
