it turned out

[navi tasan]

Can one use:
1) When they started to make the movie, they claimed that they were going to try to give us a new Philip Marlowe, one we had never seen. In the end, it turned out the same old Philip Marlowe.
instead of:
2) When they started to make the movie, they claimed that they were going to try to give us a new Philip Marlowe, one we had never seen. In the end, it turned out to be the same old Philip Marlowe.

Gratefully,
Navi.

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

 

[bhaisahab]

No.

 

[Tdol]

You could say in the end, they turned out the same old Philip Marlowe.

 

[Tarheel]

It is a weak promise to say you are going to try to do something.

 

[probus]

They both seem natural and correct to me. I would have thought the first was more BrE and the second more Ame, but in view of the earlier responses I would be delighted to be corrected.

 

[bhaisahab]

The first one is not natural BrE. I would say that it's ungrammatical.

 

[Tdol]

It doesn't work in BrE for me either.