Hollywood Shouldn’t Remake the Brilliant Another Round
Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning Danish drama Another Round celebrates the ways in which alcohol can bring joy to a midlife crisis — but there’s no way the coming Hollywood remake can avoid American moralism.
Thomas Vinterberg’s 2020 film Another Round stars Mads Mikkelsen (center). (Photo courtesy of TIFF)
Leonardo DiCaprio just nabbed the rights to make an English-language version of the terrific Oscar-winning Danish film Another Round. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s about four middle-aged men who rejuvenate their increasingly dull lives by drinking just enough to stay buzzed all day, every day. DiCaprio plans to star in the lead role played in the original by the incomparable Mads Mikkelsen.
This news has led to some spirited online demands that, in exchange, Mads Mikkelsen be allowed to star in a Danish remake of Titanic or The Wolf of Wall Street. But at any rate, you’ve been warned. You’ll have plenty of time to watch the Danish version of the film with the Mikkelsen performance, currently playing on Hulu and Amazon Prime, and to remind yourself not to watch the American version when it comes out. It will be terrible.
Why will it be terrible?
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