Daniel Radcliffe To Star In 'All Quiet On The Western Front' Adaptation

Variety:

Daniel Radcliffe will play the lead role in a new version of the Oscar-winning Best Picture "All Quiet on the Western Front."

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Comments

[Cherie King]

07:13 PM on 06/28/2010

i remember reading this in high school, i have not seen any harry potter movies, but i am sure he is qualified for the part.

[BikeFreak]

10:58 PM on 06/27/2010

Looks like he is working hard to see that he is not forever cast in the Harry Potter type roles.

Good for him.

[RedDogBear]

08:49 PM on 06/27/2010

I wish him luck but I have a feeling he may be like Mark Hammil, so identified with his first character its hard to see him as anyone else.

Speaking of Harry Potter stars there was a story a while back about how Emma Watson said she would be willing to film a nude scene. Whatever happened to that?

[inkongirl]

04:18 PM on 06/27/2010

Didn't he already star in a WWI drama "My Boy Jack"?

[Tulka2]

03:17 PM on 06/27/2010

Wouldn't an adaption have more frisson if it were adapted to, oh, say, modern day Afghanistan or Iraq?

[BacSi]

10:03 AM on 06/27/2010

I wonder how they will approach this version considering the two that have been done already? #1 being great. #2 being OK.

My fav and best remembered character is the old German school teacher. He reminds me of so many Chicken Hawks calling for more and more to enter the killing fields for the good of the Father Land.

He reminds me of so many I see here on HP and elsewhere around the net.

Never saw a war he did not fell comfortable encouraging someone else to go off and fight.

[Mum]

04:45 AM on 06/26/2010

The original will always be the best. The remake with "John-Boy" (Richard Thomas) didn't really work. Of course, they were both inspired by the excellent book of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

[pinkeyelemonade]

08:25 PM on 06/25/2010

Haven't seen the original so I can't say too much, but I'll check it out.

[Deborah Beck]

09:05 PM on 06/25/2010

I recall seeing the original film. The story is that the lead actor in the original film became a pacifist as a result of the impact of the movie role on him. Of course, I haven't checked that story out on snopes. Sometimes you just want to believe!

[Tulka2]

03:18 PM on 06/27/2010

Be in a quiet mood and try to see it on the biggest screen possible.