I am not a betting man but if I was I would bet that there will be a Hollywood version of this.
It is a good story,a sort of moral dilemma thriller.
Who will Hollywood have as the leads,Naomi Watts as the wife and George Clooney as the husband?
There probably will be, its a good story. However the law will not be outwitted, they will catch the family but then find the addict who really did the killing.
Hollywood would ruin it of course. Car chases, more shoot outs, and poorer acting. There was a lot of subtlety in this film that would be discarded in a non-European remake.
sharePlus once you have got past the roadblocks and gone out of state, you can pretty much hide in the US depending on how much effort is put into recapturing you. Whether a lawyer and teacher with a small child would live outside their comfort zone?
BTW is no-one in El Salvador going to ask what this French family are doing here with loads of cash in Euros on an extended holiday? Will the boy have to go to school? Will he let something slip talking to classmates?
It doesn't matter if they will wonder about this French family as El Salvador has no extradition treaty with France and only will be too happy that they'll spend their money there.
shareHollywood did not ruin it at all. Their remake was even better than "Pour elle". Thanks to Russell Crowe.
shareRussell Crowe is listed in the U.S. remake: imdb.com/title/tt1458175
shareThose uncreative morons!!! PMSL :-D
They remake anything half-decent from overseas. I know the Film Industry is a money making enterprise but why won't those gutless studio heads ever take a chance on a new story and give a writer a break, instead opting to take the easy risk-free option and remake something. Their lack of imagination and $$$$$ obsession is blatantly obvious and the major reason why Hollywood is a joke to the rest of the filmmaking world. Rule Number 1 of Life: Don't let people with no brains, compassion or imagination and a vested-interest in self-gain, make all the big decisions! It's supposed to be an industry of creative geniuses and artists for f. sake!
I'm both laughing and grimacing. They're a disgrace to the film industry and if they still say they're practising a creative art, they need to take a look in the mirror. Then they need to take a running jump!
Also, Tell no one (Ne le dis a personne - French title) was a great movie and I hear they're remaking that too. If you haven't seen it check it out before the *beep* Hollywood Glitterati cr@p all over it! Those dumb assez.
I'm 99% on your side, but there's 1% chance a remake could be good. Now the chance for the remake to be better is like 1% of that other 1%. But it's not 0!
You want an example? Check "Quick Change" (1990) with Bill Murray and "Hold Up" (1985) with Belmondo. I love Belmondo but man, The Murray movie is in a whole other class.
Of course the other way around the examples are far too many, so you're basically and statistically correct :D.
Um, Tell No One was based on a novel written by an American author.
shareThey still haven't remade "Tell No One" (Harlan Coben) and "Les passagers" (Trintignant).
shareSeven years later there still is no remake of "Tell No One".
Also Hollywood purchased the rights of "Plum Island" by author Nelson DeMille some 17+ years ago and it never materialized. It's his best thriller.
It's now pretty much destroyed my interest in seeing The Next Three Days, as I first thought it was an original story, before seeing this...
(and "Anything for Her" is a much better title for the movie, as well!)
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... but this supposedly contains exactly the same element of jail, etc... Was there a boat in the Shakesperean tale of Romeo and Juliet? There wasn't, so you can't just take the element of the love story and argue that that and Titanic are similar in the same way.
People are free not to cast negativity towards "The Next Three Days"... I'm just saying that I'm not too interested in seeing it, since it is in fact a direct remake of a story that I'm already familiar with.
If it's being done so differently then I don't see why a connection needs to be made with the original source material... As far as I'm aware, nobody has tried to conceal the fact that it's based upon the exact same story.
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Too bad! You really missed one of the best Hollywood movies in years!
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I finally got around to watching this after I saw the Hollywood trailer for the remake...
This was by no means a masterpiece but it did have a lot of entertainment value and the way some of the scenes were shot and the acting... holy hell. Top notch. Wish it ended a bit better though. Hollywood is going to *beep* on this.
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I happen to think both are excellent films. I saw the American film first and that's why I probably prefer it by a very small edge. The only thing I did not like about The Next Three Days was the almost-car-crash scene, which was absurd. I thought the bump key scene and subsequent vomiting (another rare original element) was very well done.
shareI thought the remake was better as well. It was more intense and emotional.
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I prefer the remake as well. The original version is not always the better version. It all depends on the director and screen writer and what they make out of it.
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