A Best Picture Nominated Classic Gets Updated...By Hilary Duff?

In one of the strangest movie reports I've read yet, it appears the Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway classic "Bonnie & Clyde" is going to be getting a remake. Aside from the shock of wondering why anyone would want to mess with a good thing, apparently Hilary Duff (of all people) is interested in playing Bonnie.

This is one of those things where I have to ask: Why? Why bother. Not only will you be remaking a movie that is still considered a benchmark film since it's original release in 1967, but you're not even going to put some decent talent into the darn thing? Didn't Hollywood learn anything from last years "The Day The Earth Stood Still?" Remakes aren't always a bad idea, but this seems to have disaster written all over it. The only positive thing I could think of was that at least the studio producing this film is talking about doing their own thing with it. That could only help at this point.