By Hey everyone, it’s the latest episode in my favorite true-crime series, Let’s Remake Recent Foreign Films!
Timecrimes is one of the freshest takes on time travel that I’ve seen since Primer. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo, the film is a seriously solid thriller that follows a man through a series of trips to the recent past as he attempts to correct his own time travelling mistakes. It’s seriously cool stuff. The film has been tapped by United Artists for an American remake for the past few years, but the project seemed dead in the water. However, yesterday it was announced that the remake had been picked up by DreamWorks, with Steve Zaillian, screenwriter of Gangs of New Work, Schindler’s List, and David Fincher’s upcoming Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake, heading the project.
On the one hand, this seems to be a competent place for the project to come to fruition. Zaillian’s a competent screenwriter, and Timecrimes is a cool piece of source material. My biggest fear will be an attempt to dumb down the twisty, multiple timeline-spanning plot for the same jackasses that thought Inception was hard to follow.
[Via First Showing]
Hey everyone, it’s the latest episode in my favorite true-crime series, Let’s Remake Recent Foreign Films!
Timecrimes is one of the freshest takes on time travel that I’ve seen since Primer. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo, the film is a seriously solid thriller that follows a man through a series of trips to the recent past as he attempts to correct his own time travelling mistakes. It’s seriously cool stuff. The film has been tapped by United Artists for an American remake for the past few years, but the project seemed dead in the water. However, yesterday it was announced that the remake had been picked up by DreamWorks, with Steve Zaillian, screenwriter of Gangs of New Work, Schindler’s List, and David Fincher’s upcoming Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake, heading the project.
On the one hand, this seems to be a competent place for the project to come to fruition. Zaillian’s a competent screenwriter, and Timecrimes is a cool piece of source material. My biggest fear will be an attempt to dumb down the twisty, multiple timeline-spanning plot for the same jackasses that thought Inception was hard to follow.
[Via First Showing]