‘The Hustle’ Trailer: Anne Hathaway And Rebel Wilson Are Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Steve Martin/Michael Caine comedyDirty Rotten Scoundrelsgets an update withThe Hustle, starringAnne HathawayandRebel Wilson. Hathaway and Wilson play con artists who team up with go after the men who have wronged them. Hilarity, unconvincing disguises, and questionable accents follow. Watch the latestThe Hustletrailer below.
The Hustle Trailer
I have absolutely no problem with female-centric remakes of older films. At the same time, wouldn’t it be cool if filmmakers started telling more and more brand new stories centered around female characters? Until we get to that point, we’ll have to make due with films likeThe Hustle, a female-centric remake ofDirty Rotten Scoundrels(which itself was a remake of the 1964 filmBedtime Story).
LikeDirty Rotten Scoundrels,The Hustlefollows two dueling con artists who decide to team up for a bigger purpose. Here, Hathaway and Wilson are “female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, who team up to take down the dirty rotten men who have wronged them.” That’s a bit different fromScoundrels, which had conmen Michael Caine and Steve Martin both trying to con the same woman out of her fortune.
I love Anne Hathaway, I like Rebel Wilson, I think this premise has potential. But so far, the footage released forThe Hustlejust isn’t doing it for me. I will say that I’m enjoying the goofy British accent Hathaway is doing here, and that might be enough to make me enjoy the rest of the film.
In addition to Hathaway and Wilson,The HustlestarsAlex Sharp,Tim Blake Nelson,Ingrid Oliver,Emma Davies, andDean Norris.Chris Addisondirects, with a script fromBlack Widowsolo movie screenwriterJac Schaeffer. While the basic premise here is the same asDirty Rotten Scoundrels, the screenwriter says audiences should expect something completely fresh. “It seemed to me that it would be much more complicated for women to be separating men from their money since we weren’t doing the gold-digger, sugar daddy scenario,” Schaeffer said in an interview. “These women are smart, it was more conniving, and there are more theatrics than the original…the characters were reimagined and the dialogue is entirely new. There are one or two lines from the original film.”
