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Dads Army, The Movie
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is this a good idea? how are they going to find another captain mannering? surely it wont be the same or even close.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Arthur Lowe wasn't the first choice actor as Captain Mainwaring anyway. The part was written for Jon Pertwee. I suspect that Toby Jones might carry off the role rather well:
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However, in such an ensemble piece as Dad's Army, it's important that all of the roles are filled well. In the recent radio recreations of the missing episodes of Hancock's Half Hour, Kevin McNally was superb as Hancock but the other roles weren't filled as well, resulting in sitcoms which weren't quite up to the original standard. Let's hope that the new version of Dad's Army doesn't fall down for similar reasons (although the original movie version, rather than the TV shows, wasn't that great either).
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However, in such an ensemble piece as Dad's Army, it's important that all of the roles are filled well. In the recent radio recreations of the missing episodes of Hancock's Half Hour, Kevin McNally was superb as Hancock but the other roles weren't filled as well, resulting in sitcoms which weren't quite up to the original standard. Let's hope that the new version of Dad's Army doesn't fall down for similar reasons (although the original movie version, rather than the TV shows, wasn't that great either).
Dad's Army finished in 1978. I don't think it was "cheesy". That's unfair: it was an acutely well-observed comedy. Nonetheless the characters are so closely associated with the actors who played them that I think it will be almost impossible to recreate. Maybe they won't try, and that isn't the point.
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