US remake? Argh!
Found this yesterday, via Rotten Tomatoes:
Columbia caught 'Red'-handed
Ridley Scott, Steve Zaillian in talks for film
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Columbia Pictures has acquired rights to remake the U.K. miniseries "Red Riding," and is negotiating with Steve Zaillian to write the script and Ridley Scott to direct.
The project, based on four David Peace novels, will be distributed in the U.S. this fall by IFC. Studio bought rights to the mini and the novel series.
Scott will produce through his Scott Free banner, along with Zaillian, through his Film Rites banner, and Andrew Eaton of Revolutionary Films, which produced the mini. Garrett Basch of Film Rites will be executive producer.
The miniseries is a study of power and police corruption framed around the investigation of the disappearance of several young girls. For the pic, the setting will be transferred from Britain to the U.S. The mini clocked in at more than five hours, so Zaillian and Scott have their work cut out for them to compress it into one film.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009940.html?categoryid=13&cs= 1&nid=2562
My first though when I when I saw this was, "They think they can give this the 'State Of Play' treatment?" I think that one worked on at least *some* level -- it tried to stay too faithful to the miniseries' basic plot at the expense of character development, but the actors did a decent job given what they had to work with and the dialogue made some pointed observations about the current state of American journalism. But this, I just don't see how it could possibly work outside of its original Northern England setting...
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