I’ve sat in rooms where producers tried to "update" the DNA of Elia Kazan’s 1957 masterpiece for a modern audience, only to watch them flush five months of pre-production down the drain. They usually start with a fundamental misunderstanding of why A Face In The Crowd Movie worked in the first place. They think it’s a simple "rise and fall" story about a populist hero. It isn’t. When you approach this kind of narrative as a standard rags-to-riches arc, you end up with a toothless protagonist and a bored audience. I saw a project recently where the writers spent $150,000 on a script polish
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