Two Capotes Better than One?

I was watching Entertainment Tonight yesterday, and Leonard Maltin (whose movie guide is my Bible) was talking about a new movie coming out this fall called Infamous. The plot may sound familiar. It's about Truman Capote researching In Cold Blood. They showed the trailer on the show just as I turned it on, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing for two reasons:

1. I had just finished reading In Cold Blood.
2. Capote had just come out less than a year ago, and this movie didn't look as good.

The film stars Toby Jones, known as the voice of Dobby in the Harry Potter movies, as Truman Capote, and Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee. It also stars Daniel Craig as Perry Smith, and Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Daniels, Sigourney Weaver, and Hope Davis also star. Now, I like Sandra Bullock, and I'm sure she'll do a good job, and there are a lot of great actors in it, but it seems like the actors are a little too well known. Capote had lesser-known actors, which I think made it less of a Hollywood picture and more of an artistic film.

Jones as Capote and Craig as Smith

Still, you can't say the film makers copied Capote, because the films were being written at about the same time. I just don't think it will have the success of Capote, because Capote was so good that it'll take a masterpiece to beat it. But who knows? Maybe two Capotes is better than one. Infamous hits theaters October 13.