Getting Dirty

MGM.has tapped writer-director Steve Pink of Accepted to script a remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" says The Hollywood Reporter.

Itself a remake of the 1964 film "Bedtime Story" with Marlon Brando and David Niven.



'Scoundrels' starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin, (pictured) and was directed by Frank Oz, had mirror-opposite con men competing to scam money from a seemingly guileless American woman and banish each other from their South of France hunting ground.

The new incarnation will be updated for a contemporary time and Pink is working out how to make their actions credible whilst still behaving in totally outrageous and absurd ways.

Pink has a pretty solid track record--The right casting is crucial though.