Universal Pictures have announced this week that they will be remaking the 1982 Academy Award winning classic Sophie’s Choice with Tim Farron in the lead role made famous by Meryl Streep.
The original screenplay by Alan Pakula based on the novel by William Stroya is the harrowing story of the unravelling mental state of a woman forced to choose which of her children would survive the death camps of World War 2, a little boy or a little girl.
The remake of 2017 will follow the Liberal Democrat leader trying to live with the decisions his party made in both the 2010 and 2017 elections.
Film critic Mark Comode who saw an advance screening of the film told us “if you thought the first one was shattering you should see the scene where Nick Clegg watches the UK vote to Leave the EU. Emotional stuff.”
Without giving away too many spoilers, all the children die in the original and everybody else kills themselves in a suicide pact.
“The 2017 version is much, much more miserable. Replacing the scene on the railway platform in which Streep begs a concentration camp guard not to make her choose between her children Farron appears on the Andrew Marr program and pleads with the electorate not to make him choose between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn to be the next Prime Minister.”
It really captures the hopeless choices of the original.
