After watching the trailer, I don’t have any great hopes for the remake of the 1981 comedy Arthur. Dudley Moore has been replaced as the feckless heir to a fortune by Russell Brand and John Gielgud’s impeccable, if occasionally foul-mouthed butler has changed sex to become Helen Mirren and a nanny.
But watch out for Greta Gerwig in Liza Minnelli’s old role – she was wonderful in the wickedly underrated Greenberg last year and can also be glimpsed in Natalie Portman’s new romcom No Strings Attached.
With a style somewhere between Claudette Colbert and Diane Keaton, Gerwig is smart, wacky, beautiful and slightly astringent. I’d put good money on her being one of the next big things in American indies.