Yes, someone bought the rights to High Noon, and have a $20million budget so far (which is like cat piss when it comes to making movies, real stars get more than that just for showing up - Johnny Depp=$42million just for PotC4)
I'd say Christian Bale, but he's a bit wooden (not that Gary Cooper wasn't a bit stiff), or perhaps Danial Craig (who has time now the that new Bond film is on ice), Sean Connery is a bit old (and he already remade it, Outland is just High Noon in space). But if it were up to me - and you're going to find out why they don't let me make movies, though perhaps they should - I'd remake it with a female lead, either Angelina Jolie or Mariska Hargitay, with a Quaker boyfriend (Owen Wilson perhaps).
And, oh yeah, you got to get Willie Nelson to do the soundtrack, I don't know who else could ever replace Tex Ritter except Willie.
You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star.
