Perhaps scarred by the coldly dismissive preemptive grumbling of our own Noel Murray back in August, Steven Spielberg has elected to back out of his planned remake of Harvey, adding to an ever-growing pile of possible directing projects he’s announced and then abandoned in the past year. No specific reason was given for Spielberg up and deciding to take his prestige-ball and go home, but many are speculating that much of it has to do with the failure to convince Tom Hanks to come on board and finally open that big-ass can of “he’s no Jimmy Stewart” backlash he’s been toying with for most of his career. When Robert Downey Jr. also refused the thankless task of stepping into Stewart’s iconic role—though not before suggesting rewrites to the script, which, because it’s Friday, we’ll now recklessly speculate involved giving Elwood P. Dowd a “recovering DMT addict” back story—Spielberg apparently called it quits before the whole thing descended into the yawning crevasse of Jim Carrey territory.