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Get to the (Man Who Made) Chopper!

By William Goss | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (8)

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Tell No One, the French film based on the novel by America’s own Harlan Coben, rightfully opened to much acclaim and decent grosses a few years back, so it only makes sense that an English-language remake would be in the works. Focus and Miramax had split the remake rights, but now that Miramax doesn’t exist quite like it did then, it all falls on Focus to crank out the Yankee take on the material.

Now, word has it that the success of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and the looming arrival of Let Me In has them finally getting things into gear. The L.A. Times reports that Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Chopper) is currently toiling away on his draft of the script.

The question that remains is, who should play the wronged doctor apparently contacted by his wife eight years after she was murdered? Though the original actor, François Cluzet, did look an awful lot like Dustin Hoffman, I think our own Boozehound nailed it when he brought up David Strathairn (even though he often strikes me as more of an authority figure than an everyman). And hey, Kristin Scott Thomas could just play herself! She could be the Peter Dinklage in this case.









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Posted by: wolton at August 10, 2010 11:22 AM

Wow! A spambot/Brooke-Shields-defending-troll hybrid. I am impressed.

I suppose there are good remakes and bad remakes of foreign films but I just don't know why they bother. Is there that large of a segment of the population out there that just can't read? Subtitles are rarely more than one line at a time. What is so hard about that?

Posted by: PaddyDog at August 10, 2010 11:26 AM

I think that is exactly the problem, PaddyDog. "You mean I's haz to reed and watch them moving pkchures!?"

Posted by: admin at August 10, 2010 11:30 AM

I can't wait for the American remake of the Harry Potter series. Now we'll finally know what they were talking about behind those fancy Englander accents. And Quidditch is going to be ten times more badass when set to a Kid Rock song.

Posted by: jM at August 10, 2010 12:33 PM

jM I just died a little inside. Thanks for that.

Posted by: Anne (in Reno) at August 10, 2010 1:24 PM

I found the original entertaining but not overly impressive. I'm not sure it would have gotten as much acclaim if it had been an American film.

Posted by: DD at August 10, 2010 4:29 PM

This was one of the films that made me go "This is a hell of a year for foreign films!" when it came out (the others being Let the Right One In and Timecrimes).
I die a little more every day. Please don't let them touch Timecrimes or I may never recover.

Posted by: MyySharona at August 11, 2010 12:52 AM

And of course I don't mean that every other year foreign films suck, it was just the first time I had the means to watch that many of them in a theater.

Posted by: MyySharona at August 11, 2010 12:53 AM