“Yeah, I’m in college, why? ”

This is annoying. For years now I’ve been hearing about an American film based on the Stanford Prison Experiment, a real life scientific study where college students were divided into prisoners and guards and kept in a facility. The guards went crazy with power and the prisoners rebelled against them and in the end the experiment had to be stopped because it was getting out of hand.

Apparently they made this movie in Germany in 2001, and it was called Das Experiment, and it was allegedly pretty good. Now, that film is being remade by Paul Scheuring (Prison Break) into The Experiment and reportedly just signed on Adrian Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood and Cam Gigandet. So what’s the problem?

Well, the project I’ve been following for years has been called The Stanford Prison Experiment, and was rumored to have a pretty excellent cast including Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Ryan Phillippe, Ben McKenzie, Charlie Hunnam, and Jessie Eisenberg, and that’s a movie I’d much rather see. Sorry, but I’m not going to buy Adrian Brody and Forrest Whittaker as college students, and is there really any question as to which sides Elijah Wood and Cam Gigandet are going to fall into? They might as well have cast Bob the Builder and Darth Vader. What happened where the other version was shelved and this new one is getting made instead? Something’s fishy here.

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