One of the wackier rumors out there — reported exclusively by genre website Latino Review and widely repeated across the blogosphere but unconfirmed so far by the trades — has Will Smith succeeding Cary Grant in a planned remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion” for Paramount and Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes, which specializes in rebooting old horror franchises. If that’s what Will, the world’s biggest box office draw, actually wants then that’s what he’ll probably get. But Will — whose screen roles have become increasingly gradiose and removed from reality — as a possible murderer strikes me as terrible idea. Maybe even worse than Ice Cube replacing Mr. Grant in an earlier remake of an RKO property, “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” which became “Are We Done Yet?” Joan Fontaine starred in the 1941 edition of “Suspicion” and she was replaced by Jane Curtin (of “Saturday Night Live” fame) opposite Anthony Andrews in a mercifully-forgotten Anglo-American TV remake in 1987. Just this weekend, there was a TV-remake of “The 39 Steps,” which has already been re-filmed twice, with a third edition in the works based on the inexplicably popular stage adaptation. Whether for TV or big screens, Hitchcock remakes never work. “Shadow of a Doubt” was remade as a ’50s B-movie “Step Down to Danger,” and later as a TV movie. Warners has been developing a second remake of “Strangers on a Train” (first re-done as “Once You Kiss a Stranger” with Carol Lynley and Paul Burke) for a decade. And then there was Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake of “Psycho,” with Vince Vaughn (!) replacing Anthony Perkins. What’s next? “Vertigo”? “North by Northwest”? “Foreign Correspondent”? Hitch himself already made two versions of “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” If Will Smith wants to dust off a Cary Grant role, I think he’d be better advised trying something lighter, say “To Catch A Thief” reset in Beverly Hills.