The problem with a remake is keeping with the context of the original movie. The silent reels Norma and Joe (Gloria Swanson and William Holden) were watching were actual Gloria Swanson silent film footage from the 1920's. They may be able to re-context it using Barbra's early 1960's footage, but that would loose steam as the timing was 1950. The play followed the time line, and I thnk any deviation from this would be disasterous. And God help us if Nora Ephron was chosen to write! (Example: The botching of Bewitched, and the wry attempt at The Women).

I think she should do a film with Jane Fonda. The two are sisters estranged from one another early in their teens as one killed an violently abusive parent and made it look like an accident, each swearing to secrecy (living across the country from one another) unitl one day each receives a letter from the only living eyewitness! Perhaps one of them could be a newspaper editor and the other a crime novelist. They get together to track down the witness and take things into their own hands...one last time. Jennifer Aniston could play the young Barbra character and perhaps Clare Danes, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, or Bridget Fonda the younger Jane character. There could be flashbacks galore.

I just cant see Streisand playing an eccentric has been... Maybe Liza...