First of all, the Nancy Meyers Christmas film The Holiday is an absolute classic, and I will not hear a bad word about it.
Second of all…. look, alright, there are some bad words to be had about it. Not many, you understand, but imho Jack Black and Kate Winslet were always a weird on-screen couple and through the lens of 2017, it’s a blindingly white movie.
But: it is a classic, ja feel?? If romantic comedies make you roll your eyes as you pretend to enjoy a cheap whiskey and watch RoboCop for the 40th time, then this ain’t the post for you. (That movie rules, though.)
In case you somehow missed 2006, The Holiday stars Winslet and Cameron Diaz as two women who house swap (which I think was a thing in the pre-Airbnb years of the 2000s) after their love lives take a turn for the worst. In each other’s houses and lives, they both meet a man (Black and Jude Law, respectively), and after some highs and lows, laughs and cries, all end the movie dancing happily in Winslet’s adorable English cottage despite the fact that geographical differences (Diaz and Black live in L.A.) would render any continued relationship all-but dead.
Whatever. It’s fantastic.
But as we come into Christmas season – and yes, it’s mid November, Christmas season is well and truly here – it’s time to start debating everyone’s favourite holiday movies all over again.
Alanna Bennett, who writes about film and TV over at BuzzFeed US, starting this whole debate up.
https://twitter.com/AlannaBennett/status/930983202201600000
She’s wrong, but okay.
People had a few thoughts about how exactly she was wrong:
https://twitter.com/mollypriddy/status/930985465284403200
https://twitter.com/katangus/status/930993350554955778
But that led her here:
More importantly though: if you had to completely recast The Holiday for 2017 who’d be who https://t.co/EeK5jxIWUN
— Alanna supports the WGA (@AlannaBennett) November 16, 2017
And now, folks are casting their imaginations wild for the ultimate casting of a The Holiday reboot.
We’ll start with Ira Madison‘s, because this was the only one I could be bothered to photoshop a version of.
https://twitter.com/ira/status/930989998664331264
That took me far too long and still isn’t very good, so just USE YOUR IMAGINATIONS for the rest of them, okay?
https://twitter.com/alex_abads/status/930991516641873920
10/10 would watch, tbh.
sterling k brown = jude law (the guy just makes everyone swoon!)
tessa thompson = kate winslet (she would be adorkable)
donald glover = jack black (bring back a little troy barnes flavor)
mindy kaling = cameron diaz (the queen of romcom tv needs a movie!)
(this took me 15 mins!)— Alicia Dalrymple (@alicia_brooke) November 16, 2017
Also 10/10 would watch.
https://twitter.com/hunteryharris/status/930993436261605377
Alright just make all of these happen, okay?
https://twitter.com/JenWachtell/status/930993028663091201
I spent way too long on this and some of these have been said already but….
Mindy Kaling as Kate Winslet
Chris O’Dowd as Jack Black
Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Diaz
Dev Patel as Jude Law (went a little younger for these ones, I think)— Gabrielle Costa (@gabriellemcosta) November 16, 2017
Maggie Gyllenhaal as Amanda
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Graham
Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Iris
Diego Luna as Miles😍😍😍😍
— Summer Anne Burton (@summeranne) November 16, 2017
Riz Ahmed paired with Gugu Mubatha-Raw, Gina Rodriguez or Anna Kendrick paired with Chris Evans, Oscar Isaacs as the cad https://t.co/t152aBln60
— J. Chlebus (@J_Chlebus) November 16, 2017
Please, if Hollywood loves us AT ALL and wants to make up for a real shitty year, let 2018 be the year that The Holiday gets the reboot it deserves.
