Two years ago, The Hollywood Reporter published the news that Al
Pacino was interested in starring in a remake (cringe) of
birthday boy Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution. At the
time, David E. Kelley was in line to write the screenplay, and
Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart, Nobody's
Fool) had just begun talks to direct the film. Since then,
however, we've heard nary a peep about the film, and it was
possible to assume that Pacino had come to his senses and
decided to move on to things that, while not necessarily
original, didn't involving trying to improve upon Wilder.  It
turns out, though, that the remake isn't actually dead. In fact,
Michael Radford recently told an Italian paper that he'll be
directing the film, and that Nicole Kidman is in talks to play
its title character, a woman who agrees to testify against her
husband in a murder trial. (Nothing so simply as stepping into
Marlene Dietrich's shoes, huh, Nic?) There are precious little
other details available about the fi