What a diabolical liberty!

The Long Good Friday should be left alone.

Its a great film and Bob Hoskins is unique.

The are certain things in life you simply do not remake if you have any sense.

Stevie Wonder records and the Long Good Friday spring to mind.

Razors, London,

Bob Hoskins was the UK's Edward G Robinson and James Cagney rolled into one - how can he ever be exported back to the USA?

and the strength of the film was the killer blow of the IRA secret that emerged as the story played out - how can that ever be emulated??

maybe al-quaeda do control the construction industry of Miami, but somehow i doubt it.....

this movie's heart is about to be blown to smithereens, and to quote Harold Shand, the choirboys will be "playing hunt the thimble" looking for the rest of it

Errol the Ponce, London,

British Ideas. British Films. The Italian Job, Get Carter, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Wicker Man and now, The Long Good Friday, to be set in Miami?!, all made with American money and all four of those remakes crash dived big time.

Note to Hollywood. Please leave these classics alone and in the way that they are intended. What's the betting that Harold Shand will have a US accent?

Mike Stevens, Warrington, United Kingdom

interested to know who will play the enemy. the ira were a great enemy cause the ganster couldn't ever beat them.

david, surrey,

I suspect once again the American's will make a complete hash of a great British Film like they did with The Italian Job, Alfie and The lavender Hill Mob and other.

Technician, Harrow, Middlesex

Great Idea, but there are some iconic classics that cannot cross over the Atlantic! The East-End attitude and the style of the British Gangster is unique and it will become just another American Action Movie without the ingredients of London, the East-End and all the excellent attention to detail that made the original a timeless classic - which it will never be if set in Miami or the USA.

Jonah, London,