Certainly one of Hollywood’s darkest ever anti-romantic comedies, The Battle of the Roses (1989) starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a pair going via a blisteringly bitter divorce. Thirty-six years on, it has been remade – or reimagined – with Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch because the sad couple. Cumberbatch is Theo Rose, a well-known architect, and Colman is Ivy Rose, a small-time cook dinner. However when his profession crashes whereas hers goes into orbit, the Roses’ relationship will get thorny. Co-starring Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon, the movie is directed by Jay Roach (Meet the Mother and father, Austin Powers), and written by Tony McNamara (The Favorite, Cruella), who says that his screenplay is much more outrageous than the Eighties one, however not, maybe, as cynical. “We have been like, ‘Let’s do a film about individuals who need to keep married fairly than two folks attempting to destroy one another,'” McNamara mentioned on Streaming Film Evening. “A classy grownup screwball comedy did not seem to be it had been executed for some time in a correct business approach, and so it appeared like a chance.”
