Nichols Directing High and Low Remake

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50083

Source: Variety
October 28, 2008


Mike Nichols (Charlie Wilson's War) is set to direct a remake of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low for Miramax Films, reports Variety.

Written by David Mamet and produced by Scott Rudin, the film hasn't started casting. Martin Scorsese originally commissioned Mamet to write the screenplay back in 1999; it took two years for Rudin to pull the rights together. Scorsese likely will executive produce.

Kurosawa's 1963 detective thriller starring Toshiro Mifune was based on the Ed McBain novel "King's Ransom," about a businessman who is ruined when he honorably pays ransom to kidnappers who mistakenly nabbed his driver's son.

 

[JTStarkiller]

The original is such a great film. I need to pick up that new Criterion that come out recently. The cover is pure awesomeness.

Don't really know if a remake is necessary, but if Nichols, Mamet, and Scorsese are all involved, I'm interested.