Could Emily Blunt, Emma Stone, or Amy Adams be the new Nora Charles for 'Thin Man' remake? (HIT FIX)

WORD IS THEY'RE ABOUT TO START READING ACTORS OPPOSITE JOHNNY DEPP

By Drew McWeeny
THURSDAY, MAR 29, 2012 5:40 PM

How do you kill a 42 year old fat man who is waaaaaaay too emotionally invested in what happens with a remake of "The Thin Man"?

You hire Rob Marshall to direct it. No matter what we hear about casting on this film, I'm going to be nervous to the point of irritated the entire time it's in production. I'll do my best to be fair, but the bitter sting of the awful "Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" is still way too fresh for me to just assume Marshall will do right by one of my favorite films of all time.

No, scratch that. The "Thin Man" series is one of my favorite anythings of all time. It's right up there with things like fire and penicillin and indoor plumbing. Nick and Nora Charles are my favorite married couple in Hollywood history, and no matter what I think of the individual films in the series, I will take any opportunity to watch William Powell as Nick and Myrna Loy as Nora.

For those of you not familiar with the series, Nick Charles was a police detective, and a darn good one. Then he met the lovely Nora, a socialite with a huge inheritance and a liver that seemed to be able to keep pace with his. Soon as you could say "bathtub gin," Nick retired from the dangerous work in order to manage Nora's estate and they were married.

In the first "Thin Man" film, a family that Nick knows turns to him for help with the eccentric inventor father goes missing. He doesn't want to solve a crime, but Nora's so entertained at the idea of him doing it and getting to watch him work that she sort of goads him into getting involved. They stay pretty much non-stop liquored up, the most charming of charming drunk couples, and their dog Asta goes along for the cute.

It's a very funny film noir, created by Dashiell Hammett, the same guy who wrote "The Maltese Falcon" and "Red Harvest." While Hammett wrote a thick stack of short fiction, he only wrote five novels, and "The Thin Man" remains a work of almost singular inspiration. It's little wonder the film was so good… they stuck closely to the rich and funny book that Hammett wrote, and they absolutely nailed down the characters he wrote.


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