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Billy Ray has been set to direct The Secret In Their Eyes, the English language remake of last year’s foreign film Oscar winner El Secreto De Sus Ojos. Warner Bros acquired rights to the Argentina pic directed by Juan Jose Campanella. Ray adapted the crime thriller, with Mark Johnson producing. Campanella is executive producer. Ray just rewrote The Hunger Games for Lionsgate, which Gary Ross is negotiating to direct. In the original, a retired prosecutors writes a novel he hopes will allow him to deal with an unrequited love for a superior but mostly to gain closure on a particularly brutal unsolved crime that has haunted him through his career.
Billy Ray Directs Remake Of Oscar Winning Foreign Film
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No but seriously…do we really need all these English-language remakes? I understand ‘The Departed’ did well and won an Oscar, and ‘Let Me In’ actually got pretty good reviews but…how did that do at the box office again?
I do not see the point in all these English-language remakes when the audience that enjoyed and appreciated the foreign original is likely to be turned off by trying to “remake” the film in English (which I believe is what happened with ‘Let Me In’) and the mainstream just not caring unless there is major-star involvement (like ‘The Departed’), and even then that doesn’t guarantee anything. I think ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ will go a long ways towards determining how frequently English-language remakes are done in the future.
The best part is that before the terrific foreign feature, the director was none for such obscure works as: HOUSE, LAW & ORDER, 30 ROCK. Was he even considered to remake his own film?
Correction: that’s… “the director was KNOWN.”
Speaking to what Mr Friendly is saying — I think more mainstream auds are ready for foreign films. Haven’t the distributors been watching TV recently? LOST had a whole storyline in Korean (or mostly). So many reality shows have subtitles when their talent can’t enunciate or the audio track is off (even Teen Mom). With texting, internet, etc. people are reading — in various mediums — more than ever. I think it’s time for distributors/studios to recognize this and stop contributing to the dumbing down of America (I’ll get off my soap box now).
Maybe instead of just remaking terrific movies that were developed and made overseas, Hollywood would be better served by just taking a look at what makes these movies great in the first place, and LEARNING from them instead of just copying them.
Hint: “Secrets in their Eyes” and “Lives of Others” and “Let the Right One In” were NOT based on board games, children’s toys, or nostalgia TV shows.
Get it together, Hollywood. Your obsession with branded material (or whatever you want to call it) is reminiscent of Detroit in the 1990s, fixated on their bloated SUVs. The rest of the world is leaving you behind in producing original, high quality cinematic material — your Johnny Come Lately efforts to making good movies is getting sad.
Both The Secret in Their Eyes and Let The Right One In are based in books.
Actually, The Secret in Their Eyes and Let The Right One In, are both, adaptations of books by the same name.
Actually, believe it or not, both movies were based on the SAME novel. Just goes to show how wildly different two visions can be…
Seriously, though, I liked Shattered Glass and Breach. But won’t it be tough doing this without the background of the junta, the dirty war et al?
Right, I wasn’t singling out book adaptations as the problem; books aren’t just about awareness of some title (i.e. “Battleship” or “8 Ball”), they can actually provide rich characters and original concepts and compelling stories, etc…etc… Books aren’t the problem.
I was singling out the crap like board games and toys and old TV shows (where they’re just ripping off the title for awareness purposes, etc…). That’s what has gotten out of hand and needs to stop.
What will Miley do now?
J/K
This fantastic movie should not be remade. It hasn’t even been a year since it won an Oscar couldn’t they have waited for the director to die at least?
Has Billy Ray ever written an original screenplay? Maybe “Color of Night?” which was also heavily rewritten. This guy makes his bread and butter rewriting everyone around town. He’s a good writer, but doesn’t he have enough cash by now? He should write something original – that starts in his brain and not with someone else’s source material – as should most of Hollywood. Hats off to Chris Nolan for sticking with his principles.
Er… Insomnia?
Here’s a question: Does anyone on here think Billy Ray is a great writer? And by “great” I mean great like William Goldman used to be…or Robert Towne…or Lawrence Kasdan when he wrote BODY HEAT?
SHATTERED GLASS was just okay — certainly far from a masterpiece — and BREACH was, at best, nothing but a cure for insomnia.
And I thought Ray’s draft of the forthcoming MOTORCADE was pretty horrendous when I read it two years ago.
Now I don’t know Ray personally, and I have no doubt that he is a bright and honest and hardworking young man. But I would love to hear from anyone who admires his writing.
This is the worst choice of director for such a delicate and character driven story…sad news…
Remember when they wanted to remake The Lives of Others?
Well, this is just as stupid.
BTW, I still need to see The Secret in Their Eyes.
Yeah, you do need to see it. It’s now available through Netflix.
Lionsgate’s upcoming Next Three Days is the kind of remake that makes sense although I have not seen it nor was I involved in any way. I have seen the original – a solid (never released here outside film festivals) genre film with a strong plot that they’ve re-packaged with a strong director (Haggis) and star (Crowe). This is what was done on The Departed (although that was on a higher level on every front.) There is nothing wrong with re-making stuff – it’s the bad taste and poor judgement that are the problem.
I’m nauseous. The Secret in Their Eyes is a distinctly Argentine film, which is what made it so good. This is pathetic – are Hollywood execs retarded? Will all of the brains here in Hollywood, can’t anyone think of anything original? I feel confident when I say whatever they concoct as an American remake will be a piece of sh*t.