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EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films is making a deal to acquire remake rights to the Daniel Monzon-directed Spanish language film Celda 211. Paul Haggis is in talks to adapt with an eye to direct. He will produce the film under his Hwy 61 Films banner, with partner Michael Nozik.The Americanized version will be titled Cell 211.
The film is an action thriller with a premise that feels like the second coming of Die Hard. A newly hired prison guard wants to make a good impression on his bosses, and he leaves behind his pregnant wife and comes in a day early to get a tour of the facility. When a brutal prison riot breaks out, he is knocked unconscious and when he awakens, the guard is forced to assume the role of a prisoner alongside the most dangerous killers alive. He tries to defuse the uprising and escape before the prisoners realize who he really is. Released in 2009, the original film swept the Goya Awards, which are the Spanish Oscars, winning Best Film, Best Director and Screenplay honors for Monzon, and five other awards. Here is a trailer from the original:
Haggis most recently shot The Next Three Days, the drama that stars Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks and Liam Neeson and opens November 19.
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What kills me is a film can win the Goya for Best Picture of 2009 and has no release here in the US in late 2010. There are at least a dozen countries that I would very much like to see their Best Picture winner here and Spain is one of them.
It’s a sad fact that there are many fantastic films that don’t get overseas releases in the U.S. and elsewhere, leaving potential viewers to discover them for themselves (and import a DVD with, hopefully, the right dub or subtitles) or wait for a remake, which is, of course, not the same thing. At least living in NY (I’m guessing), means you have a better chance, what with so many cinemas, various festivals etc. As for Celda 211, try hooking up with someone from the local Spanish community?
Haggis wrote Casino Royale right? So I’m down with him doing Die Hard in a prison.
Here is the trailer in English: http://www.shotaz.com/watch/88353.html
This movie is going to be amazing! I can’t wait to see who CBS Films casts to play the lead.
youtube it for a video in english…
Gael Garcia Bernal or Ryan Gosling as the guard.
Paul Haggis is THE MAN!
From “Crash” to infinity — and beyond. He has mad ‘skillz’
Saw ‘Cell 211′ this year at the Seatttle International Film Festival. It rocked. Easily in the Top Ten of movies, including American blockbusters of 2010, that I’ve seen this year. Maybe even in the Top 5. Best prison heist movie — with beautifully layered moral complexities — that I’ve seen in a long time.
it’s going to be about competing prison riot films with Doug Liman’s “Attica” and this other project I heard about project called “The Hate Factory” (great name right?) that’s about a real life prison riot!
Another perfect Spanish movie that shouldn’t be remade!
Javier Bardem’s brother plays one of the inmates.
completely agree
What is up with the production values in Spain? Do they not know how to grade the film correctly?
In Spain we love that movie but it is always a money problem. Spanish productions can never compete with American or British. Nobody says that Zara is Spanish. The Spanish products don’t sell. Doing so could never really replace players in cell 211
Anyway here we have not received this news.
Two words: Con Air? Can they get Cage to reprise?
Speaking of “Con Air” what the heck ever happened to the 1990s screenwriter wunderkind Scott Rosenberg,who wrote “Con Air”, “Beautiful Girls” and “Gone in 60 Seconds”?
His just vanished from the Big Screen. Poof! I thought he’d be blowing up still, given how successful his movies were … Anyone got the 411?
still get big quan for rewrites…
I saw this at a Spanish Film Festival in LA. It was excellent and not a thing like Die Hard or Con Air. Much more complex in terms of character development and themes. An American remake could work if done well.
CBS Films won’t be in business in a year. What the hell is Paul Haggis doing?