The wrong good Friday

Playing our daily news hour quiz (five stories, which one is false) with T.O.H when I saw this article on the BBC news site about The Long Good Friday. Beware spoilers about the original movies are to follow....you have been warned......

Now I should first say that I actually consider the original The Long good Friday one of the best British gangster films if not films in general ever made. To me it works best in the trilogy of crime films made in the 70's 80's that show a deep dark and often quite grimy level of English life.
Get carter, the Long good Friday and Mona Lisa, a tangled vipers nest of sexuality, anti heroes, redemption and obsession that stand between the decades like a dirt stained colossus and to me at least captures England as it was warts and all (and what warts they are!)
I first saw the movie in a small cinema in Leeds, the next week was spent searching for a copy eventually finding an battered old version from a second hand stall in Norwich which it still on my shelf in England (English videos don't work in Japan booooo!!)
I should say I actually don't mind movies being remade (although for a life of me I can't think of a good one right now) but I seriously can't think how or why they would remake T.L.G.F the film deals with very 80's themes with the development of London and the I.R.A and an ending that haunts long after it finishes (which I'll try not to spoil. I caught some of Get Carter remake a while back which they managed to butcher surprisingly efficiently, especially the ending, maybe its the directors/writers fear that the audience can't handle something so dark, or the stars refusing to comply with the original.
As for T.L.G.F, for me the originals power and foundation was Bob Hoskins amazing central performance, the business man who finds himself slowly slipping back into the mud and filth from where he came in his desperate search for answers. Although hats off to Helen Mirran as his wife.
I presume the new version (apparently set in Miami) will be full of quick cuts, slow mo stills, bad guys clearly marked out (although in T.L.G.F surely everyone is a bad guy) especially as its amazingly hack like director Paul W.S Anderson its will probably involve at least several women having to run around in bikinis , car chases a smart alec side kick oh and probably get rid of the amazing theme music (80's synth has never sounded better)

Maybe I'm going to be proved wrong, I hope so I really do. I f you haven't seen the movie I really recommend renting it along with Get Carter and Mona Lisa you might not be in for a happy weekend but you probably wont see finer films.