Pelham 123 to be taken again

Last night I had the perfect Valentine's: a grilled cheese sandwich/made-from-scratch Manhattan clam chowder dinner with My Hero, her son and his best friend followed by a movie. We watched Walter Matthau as "Charley Varrick," which, along with the below-mentioned "Friends of Eddie Coyle," is among my favotie "little" crime movies that flourished during the 1970s. Another one, that also starred Matthau, was "The Taking of Pelham 123," which came up in our conversation last night after watching "Charley Varrick." Now it turns out, as you can see from the above trailer, that the film is being remade with Denzel Washington playing the role originated by Matthau, John Travolta in the part originally played by Robert Shaw and James Gandolfini as the mayor of New York.