Ilsa and Rick might have had a happy ending had the Motion Picture Production Code not forbidden showing a woman leaving her husband for another man. On January 5th, 1942, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Ann Sheridan and her Kings Row co-star Ronald Reagan had been cast as Ilsa and Rick. It seems to have filled a need, a need that was there before the film.”Īn untold number of peculiarities and twists of fate transformed a modestly budgeted studio product into the film Umberto Eco describes as “It is movies”. “It has a life of its own,” said Ingrid Bergman. With every failed revival, it becomes clearer that Casablanca was lightning in a bottle.
No one has seen or heard of the project since. In 2012, a proposed sequel, Return to Casablanca or As Time Goes By, generated dozens of outraged headlines and opinion pieces. An even shorter-lived prequel series debuted in 1983 featuring Starsky and Hutch’s David Soul as Rick, along with Scatman Crothers and Ray Liotta.
In 1943, shortly after the film landed the Best Picture Oscar, Warner Bros announced then renounced plans to release a sequel called Brazzaville based on the "beautiful friendship" between Rick and Capt Renault and the idea that they had secretly been Allied operatives all along.Ī short-lived television show in 1955 cast Charles McGraw as Rick Blaine, the role originally played by Bogart. Warner Bros have made several attempts to reboot Casablanca.
There can be no doubt that most actors would feel as intimidated as I do and I cannot imagine Jean-Paul Belmondo or Catherine Deneuve being willing to step into the shoes of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.” I am aware, however, that American students have created a cult around the film, principally its dialogue, which they know by heart. Because of that, I should logically find the idea of directing a new version less intimidating, and I have not forgotten that the film has quite a French atmosphere.
Upon returning to Paris, Truffaut wrote: “It is not my favourite Humphrey Bogart film, I have a far greater admiration for The Big Sleep or To Have and Have Not. The director had nothing against the idea of remakes per se but was reluctant to take on a title that carried so "much weight in the history of American cinema". In 1974, Warner Brothers executive Simon Benzakein met French New Wave icon François Truffaut in Los Angeles with an offer to remake Casablanca.
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