Steve Martin To Star In Birth Of A Nation Remake
Comedy legend Steve Martin has promised that his remake of the D. W. Griffith classic Birth of a Nation will be another immediate family hit but he says that it also signals his return to the kind of edgy comedy for which he is best loved.
Produced by the same creative team that made Cheaper By the Dozen, Cheaper By the Baker’s Dozen, and Cheaper Than the Dirty Dozen 2: Behind Enemy Lines, the film sees Martin play a banjo picking troubadour wandering through the Southern states during the American Civil War.
‘We’ve hardly departed from Griffith’s original, except where modern attitudes toward the film’s slight racism means we’ve avoided making the Klu Klux Klan look like heroes. That’s why I get to move into a house where I have to look after twelve rowdy clansmen before chaos ensues when my brother played by Eugine Levi arrives with his own family of twelve slaves. It’s a perfect formula for laughs.’
