Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev wil direct Deity, an English-language remake of Indian hit thriller Kahaani for Yrf Entertainment.
Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) and Richard Regen (Tehran) have scripted the adaptation. Oplev’s credits include the original Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Released in 2012, Kahaani was directed by Sujoy Ghosh and starred Vidya Balan as a woman who travels to Kolkata to search for her missing husband. In the remake, Balan’s character will become an American woman.
The remake will be produced and financed by Yrf Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production arm of India’s Yash Raj Films, with CEO Uday Chopra serving as producer and Jonathan Reiman, head of production & development, serving as executive producer.
Yrf Entertainment recently financed Cannes opening film Grace Of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, which it produced with Pierre-Ange le Pogam’s Stone Angels and Arash Amel. Yrf’s upcoming projects include Amel’s adaptation of [link...
Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) and Richard Regen (Tehran) have scripted the adaptation. Oplev’s credits include the original Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Released in 2012, Kahaani was directed by Sujoy Ghosh and starred Vidya Balan as a woman who travels to Kolkata to search for her missing husband. In the remake, Balan’s character will become an American woman.
The remake will be produced and financed by Yrf Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production arm of India’s Yash Raj Films, with CEO Uday Chopra serving as producer and Jonathan Reiman, head of production & development, serving as executive producer.
Yrf Entertainment recently financed Cannes opening film Grace Of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, which it produced with Pierre-Ange le Pogam’s Stone Angels and Arash Amel. Yrf’s upcoming projects include Amel’s adaptation of [link...
- 7/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev wil direct Deity, an English-language remake of Indian hit thriller Kahaani for Yrf Entertainment.
Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) and Richard Regen (Tehran) have scripted the adaptation. Oplev’s credits include the original Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Released in 2012, Kahaani was directed by Sujoy Ghosh and starred Vidya Balan as a woman who travels to Kolkata to search for her missing husband. In the remake, Balan’s character will become an American woman.
The remake will be produced and financed by Yrf Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production arm of India’s Yash Raj Films, with CEO Uday Chopra serving as producer and Jonathan Reiman, head of production & development, serving as executive producer.
Yrf Entertainment recently financed Cannes opening film Grace Of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, which it produced with Pierre-Ange le Pogam’s Stone Angels and Arash Amel. Yrf’s upcoming projects include Amel’s adaptation of [link...
Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) and Richard Regen (Tehran) have scripted the adaptation. Oplev’s credits include the original Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Released in 2012, Kahaani was directed by Sujoy Ghosh and starred Vidya Balan as a woman who travels to Kolkata to search for her missing husband. In the remake, Balan’s character will become an American woman.
The remake will be produced and financed by Yrf Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production arm of India’s Yash Raj Films, with CEO Uday Chopra serving as producer and Jonathan Reiman, head of production & development, serving as executive producer.
Yrf Entertainment recently financed Cannes opening film Grace Of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, which it produced with Pierre-Ange le Pogam’s Stone Angels and Arash Amel. Yrf’s upcoming projects include Amel’s adaptation of [link...
- 7/25/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Yrf Entertainment will remake the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Sujoy Ghosh directed and Vidya Balan starrer Kahaani, for Western and international audiences as Deity. Deity will be directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) and Richard Regen (Tehran) have scripted the English adaptation of Kahaani. The movie is a thriller about an American woman who goes to Kolkata in search of her missing husband. As she gets closer to the truth, she finds herself at the centre of a dangerous conspiracy. The story unfolds in the context of a colourful, week-long festival. An excited Sujoy Ghosh said, "It's an incredible step by Yrf. Years back Aditya Chopra had said he wanted to make Kahaani for a global audience...I thought he was kidding. But obviously not. Yrf has left no stone unturned on making the English version. The new script...
- 7/25/2014
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Yrf Entertainment will remake the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Sujoy Ghosh directed and Vidya Balan starrer Kahaani, for Western and international audiences as “Deity”.
One of the coolest things is that “Deity” will be directed by Niels Arden Oplev (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”).
The movie is a thriller about an American woman who goes to Kolkata in search of her missing husband. As she gets closer to the truth, she finds herself at the centre of a dangerous conspiracy. The story unfolds in the context of a colourful, week-long festival.
An excited Sujoy Ghosh said, “It’s an incredible step by Yrf. Years back Aditya Chopra had said he wanted to make ‘Kahaani’ for a global audience… I thought he was kidding. But obviously not. Yrf has left no stone unturned on making the English version. The new script by Jose Rivera and Richard Regen is perfectly...
One of the coolest things is that “Deity” will be directed by Niels Arden Oplev (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”).
The movie is a thriller about an American woman who goes to Kolkata in search of her missing husband. As she gets closer to the truth, she finds herself at the centre of a dangerous conspiracy. The story unfolds in the context of a colourful, week-long festival.
An excited Sujoy Ghosh said, “It’s an incredible step by Yrf. Years back Aditya Chopra had said he wanted to make ‘Kahaani’ for a global audience… I thought he was kidding. But obviously not. Yrf has left no stone unturned on making the English version. The new script by Jose Rivera and Richard Regen is perfectly...
- 7/25/2014
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Yrf Entertainment, the L.A.-based subsidiary of Bollywood banner Yash Raj Films, said Friday that it will remake Bollywood hit Kahaani as English-language feature Deity for international audiences. Deity will be directed by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, who made the original 2009 Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Its English remake was directed by David Fincher in 2011, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. Deity has been scripted by Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) and Richard Regen (Tehran). The 2012 thriller Kahaani (Story) starred actress Vidya Balan as a pregnant woman investigating the disappearance
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- 7/25/2014
- by Nyay Bhushan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Yrf Entertainment will remake the hit 2012 Indian film Kahaani, and the company has landed Jose Rivera and Richard Regen to script it for Niels Arden Oplev, helmer of the Swedish trilogy that began with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Written and directed by Sujoy Ghosh, Kahaani was a big hit in India that grossed 16 times its budget in that country alone. The remake is titled Deity, and it’s described as a thriller about an American woman who goes to Calcutta in search of her missing husband. As she gets closer to the truth, she finds herself at […]...
- 7/24/2014
- Deadline
Brian D. Young ("180 Degrees") has been hired to pen a re-write of the film adaptation of Jeffrey Archer's 2005 novel "False Impression" at New Franchise Media says The Hollywood Reporter.
An action-crime novel set on several continents, the story begins with a woman who escaped the 9/11 attack after being fired by her banker boss. She then helps a British lady try to sell a Van Gogh painting while both a mercenary and an FBI agent are on her trail.
New Franchise acquired the worldwide film, TV and digital rights to ten of Archer's novels a while back with Richard Regen working on a script based on "A Matter of Honor" and its follow-up "Honor Among Thieves" for Kennedy/Marshall. Similarly Gale Anne Hurd is developing a TV adaptation of Archer's"The Eleventh Commandment".
An action-crime novel set on several continents, the story begins with a woman who escaped the 9/11 attack after being fired by her banker boss. She then helps a British lady try to sell a Van Gogh painting while both a mercenary and an FBI agent are on her trail.
New Franchise acquired the worldwide film, TV and digital rights to ten of Archer's novels a while back with Richard Regen working on a script based on "A Matter of Honor" and its follow-up "Honor Among Thieves" for Kennedy/Marshall. Similarly Gale Anne Hurd is developing a TV adaptation of Archer's"The Eleventh Commandment".
- 5/9/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Toronto - Canadian indie producer New Franchise Media has tapped Brian D. Young to do a re-write of the Jeffrey Archer novel False Impression, now in the script stage. Toronto-based New Franchise, which last year acquired the worldwide film, TV and digital rights to a slate of ten thriller novels by Archer, and The Kennedy/Marshall Company have also hired Richard Regen to adapt the separate novel, A Matter of Honor, into a multi-film franchise property. False Impression, published by Archer in 2005, is an action-crime novel set on several continents considered ripe for an action thriller. Young
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- 5/8/2012
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Richard Regen has been set by Kennedy/Marshall and New Franchise Media to adapt A Matter Of Honor, the bestselling novel by Jeffrey Archer. In the book, a disgraced Army colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. Once Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, a deadly chain of events unfold that have global implications. When he finally figures out what he has opened, the son must protect it as a matter of honor. New Franchise Media, a rights ownership and development company devoted to bringing Archer properties to the screen, is financing development. The hope is to turn this into a franchise, with Frank Marshall producing through Kennedy/Marshall. Marshall has guided The Bourne Identity franchise. UTA-repped Regen most recently teamed with Gay Talese to script an untitled biopic about New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott for Warner Bros and Unique producers Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne.
- 5/8/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne's Unique Pictures has set New York-based scribe Richard Regen to write an untitled biopic about the life of New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott. The hope is to generate an inspiring film in the vein of The Blind Side, focusing on Scott's survival of a childhood spent in a violent neighborhood of Detroit, to become one of the best linebackers in the game. The project came to Shaye and Lynne through New York City journalist/author Gay Talese, who worked with Regen to develop the story of Scott and how he was raised by a single mother. Regen previously scripted Tehran, a script that made the Black List before being optioned by Imagine's Brian Grazer. He also wrote Chasing the Dragon, a memoir about the Chinese Civil War for Universal and Tribeca's Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro. Shaye and Lynne, the former New...
- 11/2/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Brian Grazer has teamed up with Universal to produce Richard Regen’s script “Tehran,” according to Variety.
The film centers on an American professor who is hired by the government to examine tensions in pre-coup Tehran in 1977. He later falls for an Iranian girl whose brother is with the secret police.
Regen also created TV’s “Secret Agent Man” and recently penned “Panic,” a thriller for the Weinstein Co.
Brian Grazer’s producing credits include “A Beautiful Mind,” “Cinderella Man” and “American Gangster.”...
The film centers on an American professor who is hired by the government to examine tensions in pre-coup Tehran in 1977. He later falls for an Iranian girl whose brother is with the secret police.
Regen also created TV’s “Secret Agent Man” and recently penned “Panic,” a thriller for the Weinstein Co.
Brian Grazer’s producing credits include “A Beautiful Mind,” “Cinderella Man” and “American Gangster.”...
- 7/14/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
NEW YORK -- Miramax Films has inked journalist and screenwriter Richard Regen to adapt for the big screen former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's autobiography The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice. One-time Miramax staffer Rick Schwartz, who recently executive produced Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, will produce the as-yet-untitled Kerik project. Kerik's tome, published by HarperCollins/Regan Books in 2001, chronicles the former cop's rise from uniformed street officer to fearless undercover narcotics detective. He eventually goes on to assume leadership of an elite unit that takes down Colombia's infamous Cali cocaine cartel, among other accomplishments.
- 6/17/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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