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EXCLUSIVE: As his new film Unknown gets its international premiere in Berlin today and rolls out in U.S. theaters, director Jaume Collet-Serra is making a deal to direct Red Circle, the remake of the 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Le Cercle Rouge. The film is being written by Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight for Working Title Films partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, who’ll produce with Arthur Sarkissian.
Collet-Serra was just at the center of a Warner Bros deal for Harker, a potential franchise he’ll direct that focuses on vampire hunter Jonathan Harker character from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with Leonardo DiCaprio among its producers. The director’s stock is up because with Unknown, he delivered a thriller in the $30 million range that, like Liam Neeson’s Taken, was shot outside the U.S. and is geared to do strong business overseas in addition to its domestic gross. The heist film Red Circle has similar potential, as it will be set in Hong Kong. Collet-Serra hasn’t fixed on his next feature assignment. When he returns from Berlin, he will go right to work directing The River, the ABC series thriller pilot hatched by Paranormal Activity‘s Oren Peli. Collet-Serra’s repped by CAA.
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What a travesty! Le Cercle Rouge is an amazing movie, and it’s a shame that it’s become the latest victim of the remake frenzy.
WHY????????????
Oh God no.
Le Cercle Rouge is awesome.
This is going to be horrible.
The first 3 comments amaze me – Nostrodamus would be amazed at your ability to know whether a film will be good or bad before it’s even made… I guess none of you saw the remake of “True Grit” which is as good if not better than the original…
To the film at hand – I know one of the producers of the film, and I know what’s being planned. This will be a good film, and a new generation of movie goers who have no interest in a 70′s era french film, will get to experience it in this up-dated version of the film. With the possibility of this director, I’m looking forward to it even more…
No one is saying all remakes are bad. The John Wayne “True Grit” was actually not that good a film, and the Coen’s version wasn’t even a remake it was just a different adaptation of the same source material.
Sure, some remakes are OK, but on the whole they fail because they’re driven by fear and insecurity on the part of the people making them who don’t have the courage to make original material, but feel fine just remaking something that already proved successful once.
And remakes of GREAT films, like “Le Cercle Rouge,” virtually ALWAYS fail because the magic that made the original so great simply can’t be bottled and sold to the next consumer.
Don’t even compare True Grit remake.. we are talking about a period in cinema that is similar to a holy grail of movies.
PLEASE
The great thing about Melville was his taking American crime movie staples and Francofying them into something artistically foreign and yet viable.
The likely failure of this will be in taking it back to America. What does it honestly add?
The concept of Le Cercle Rouge was not profound.
You really don’t know what you’re talking about
There were cool momments in Le cercle Rouge however in no way was it a great movie, it was patchy , incomplete and a bore at times Melville copied every American gangster movie, but this is really not a remake ir’s another version if thT story please don’t be too quick to judge
You really are off track the original was patchy incomplete slow and a bore,Melville copied every American gangster movie known to mankind. Believe me this is not a direct remake , please wait and Judge when it’s done,
only one director on this planet should be allowed to touch le cercle rouge: Michael Mann. He is our generations’ Melville. he’d knock this out of the park. he’s got the style, the sensibility and the balls.
Mann already remade Le Cercle Rouge. It’s a little film called “Heat”.
I consider Heat to be Mann’s remake of Le Cercle Rouge. Wouldn’t you agree?
I thought this film was finished. I guess not. Last I heard Johnny To was directing Orlando Bloom (Corey), Chow Yun Fat (Vogel), & Liam Neeson (Jansen) with Alain Delon possibly attached (Rico?).
New director, new cast, I suppose. With the exception of Bloom, I think the above casting is pretty good. Le Cercle Rouge is one of my desert island films, so I was not pleased to hear that it was being remade, but what can you do? It’s not worth getting upset over. Just stay home.
Keep in mind that Le Cercle Rouge is a remake of Rififi. I’m sure most of you love both of these films. Neil Jordan’s The Good Thief was a great remake than Bob Le Flambeur. Le Samourai has been remade a few times, all of which have an interesting take on the original. None of these remakes have been necessarily better than Melville’s originals, but they are worth watching. Let’s see what happens with this one before we judge.