We don’t put much stock frankly, into this new rumor making the rounds that says Leonard DiCaprio and BFF Tobey Maguire will star in a remake of Carol Reed’s British noir-classic, “The Third Man,” which is evidently being written by “Eastern Promises” screenwriter Steven Knight.
“The Third Man” is an all-timer and pitted real-life pals Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten against each other in a thriller about a man who visits Vienna for a job on the behest of a best friend, only to find that the buddy was killed under mysterious circumstances upon his arrival.
So yeah, we don’t buy it, but hey, we’re in the mood for making fun photoshop graphics tonight, so why not. Update: Also, note: The Criterion Collection no longer has the rights to “Third Man,” on regular DVD and Blu-Ray and the discs have gone out of print, effective immediately. Scoop ’em up while you can now because the studio version obviously will not be as lovingly rendered.
