Rob Marshall is rockin’ the boat!
The “Chicago” director is in talks to helm the remake of “Guys and Dolls” for Sony’s TriStar Pictures. Marshall and John DeLuca will write the script with John Requa & Glenn Ficarra.
John Goldwyn, Marc Toberoff and Marc Platt will produce alongside Marshall and DeLuca, while TriStar president Nicole Brown and Shary Shirazi will oversee the project for the studio.
Bill Condon was previously attached to direct the film back in 2021.
Sony purchased remake rights in 2019 for the original Damon Runyon short stories about gamblers and gangsters, as well as the rights to the Broadway musical The studio also acquired remake rights to the previous 1955 film adaptation from the Samuel Goldwyn company.
That version of “Guys and Dolls” starred Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine, and was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay.
“Guys and Dolls” opened on Broadway in 1950, where it ran for 1,200 performances over three years. It earned five Tony Awards, including the prize for best musical, and has been revived several times since, including a 1992 version with Nathan Lane and Faith Prince.
20th Century Fox previously held the rights to the film, with Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt eyed to star, but the project eventually became a casualty of the Fox-Disney merger.
Marshall’s credits include “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Into the Woods,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” the 2023 live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid,” “Nine,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Chicago,” which earned him Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nods for best director.
Marshall is represented by CAA. The InSneider was first to report the news of his involvement.
