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)...
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)...