AHC: Save the film adaptation of the Bonfire of the Vanities

I'm currently reading the book The Devil's Candy by Julie Salomon, which is about how the film adaptation of the Bonfire of the Vanities novel by Tom Wolfe went badly wrong, and I've come up with an idea: your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to somehow save the film adaptation of the Bonfire of the Vanities.

My own thoughts--well, not casting Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis in the roles of Sherman McCoy (1) and Peter Fallow (2), respectively, would be a good start...

(1) Ironically, if the Bonfire of the Vanities had been made a half-decade later, after Tom Hanks' success in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, Hanks would have been a better fit, IMO...
(2) The character was British originally; Bruce Willis was cast to draw in the crowd that was his fanbase. Boy, did that backfire (Willis acting like a jerk on the set didn't help)...
 
I love the book. But I never really look at the making of the film.
I know that the original Director was going to be Mike Nichols. His style seem closer to the style of the Novel.
I not sure why Nichole left the film but the other director who would have been a better choice then De Palma would have been Arthur Hiller. His film the Hospital had the same tone that the novel has with the mixture of serious and the absurd.
There was talk about either Jack Nicholson or John Cleese as Fallow .
And I read that Nichols wanted Steve Martin as McCoy. Tom Wolf choice was Chevy Chase.
 
It's a fairly interesting book; Bruce Willis comes off looking like a big egomaniac in it, Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman come off OK (Freeman, in later years, compared the making of Bonfire to being on an airplane that was going to crash). It's an example of how not to make a movie...
 
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