Steven Spielberg has taken a turn to adapt the Mary Chase Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Harvey”  as his next film to direct. I must admit I am surprised that Spielberg has committed to a remake classic like Harvey.  I can’t see how a movie like Harvey could be done any better.

The story follows an amiable eccentric named Elwood P. Dowd and his friendship with a six and one-half foot tall invisible rabbit called a pooka (a benign but mischievous creature from Celtic mythology who is especially fond of social outcasts like Elwood) and how it affects every member of his family and community. The popular play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 and then turned into the 1950 Universal film that starred Jimmy Stewart and Josephine Hull. Stewart played him brilliantly, and I can’t see another actor doing as good as a job as Stewart.

But if it must be done, here is my list of the actors who might play Harvey: Harrison Ford, Steve Martin, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks.

There is no word when production will start.  Spielberg is waiting for a script from bestselling novelist Jonathan Tropper. Harvey is Tropper’s first screenplay.

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