NEW YORK -- Miramax is producing an English remake of Patrice Leconte's French drama Man on the Train with writer Daniel Taplitz and producer Bob Cooper.
Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone) is in negotiations to direct the tale of a drifter casing a conservative small town for a bank robbery. The man befriends an elderly professor who seeks to energize his life by becoming his partner in crime.
Billy Bob Thornton is said to be circling the project, but no actors have been set. It's hoped that production will begin this year once a cast is locked down.
Taplitz (Chaos Theory) is adapting Claude Klotz's original screenplay to the 2002 film, which was released domestically by Paramount Classics. It won the Venice Film Festival award for best film and best actor (Jean Rochefort).
The project is Miramax's latest stab at a foreign film remake. The company also is heading into production with an adaptation of the Italian drama Everybody's Fine with Robert De Niro.
Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone) is in negotiations to direct the tale of a drifter casing a conservative small town for a bank robbery. The man befriends an elderly professor who seeks to energize his life by becoming his partner in crime.
Billy Bob Thornton is said to be circling the project, but no actors have been set. It's hoped that production will begin this year once a cast is locked down.
Taplitz (Chaos Theory) is adapting Claude Klotz's original screenplay to the 2002 film, which was released domestically by Paramount Classics. It won the Venice Film Festival award for best film and best actor (Jean Rochefort).
The project is Miramax's latest stab at a foreign film remake. The company also is heading into production with an adaptation of the Italian drama Everybody's Fine with Robert De Niro.
- 4/22/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Paramount Classics acquired multiterritory distribution rights Thursday to Patrice Leconte's L'Homme Du Train (The Man on the Train) in a deal with the French-based arm of sales operation Pathe International. The deal, struck during the Venice International Film Festival, where the film screened to great acclaim Tuesday, sees the specialty film division of Paramount Pictures secure distribution rights to Leconte's film for North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Paramount Classics co-president Ruth Vitale finalized the acquisition for an undisclosed sum with Pathe International sales director Pascal Diot on the Lido. Train, written by Claude Klotz (The Hairdresser's Husband), stars Jean Rochefort and French rock 'n' roll icon Johnny Hallyday.
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