Creepy Casting
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 22nd, 2008
Paramount Vantage has acquired the English-language remake for Géla Babluani’s French thriller, 13 Tzameti, to be written and directed by himself, for international sales. According to The Hollywood Reporter, 50 Cent, Mickey Rourke, and Jason Statham will join Sam Riley in the remake which starts shoot next month in New York City.
The original film won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize award in 2006. The tale follows “a naïve young man [who] assumes a dead man’s identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.”
Also to begin filming in November is Relativity Media’s Season of the Witch starring Nicholas Cage. Principle photography will commence in Austria and Hungary. Variety reports that Stephen Campbell Moore (The Children), Claire Foy, and Robbie Sheehan have been cast alongside Cage.
As announced previously, Dominic Sena will direct the screenplay by Bragi Schut Jr. that “chronicles the journey of 14th century knights transporting a girl suspected of being the witch responsible for spreading the Black Plague.
Mike EverlethOctober 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 am
It’ll be interesting to see how Paramount handles the publicity for the film. I got in a couple online comment page fights with some folks who were extremely angry at Palm Pictures for giving away the “surprise” ending for the film’s U.S. release.
I knew the ending and it didn’t ruin my enjoyment of the film at all. I thought it was great. Hope the remake is halfway decent at least.