Guillaume Canet’s excellent thriller Tell No One was so well received that it’s getting the now-typical US remake. And now he is too – or at least, he’s working on his first English-language film, Rivals.
He’s teamed up with American director James Gray on the script for the film, which, according to Variety, has been loosely adapted from Jacques Maillot's 2008 thriller **Les Liens du sang **(Blood Ties, translated literally), which centres on two brothers, a cop and a former prisoner.
While some elements will be similar, the setting switches from France to Philadelphia while retaining the ‘70s period, and the new movie is taking more from the true story that Maillot’s film used as inspiration. “Rivals is not really a remake, it's a completely different story, set in a completely different environment," says StudioCanal’s chairman Olivier Courson.
Since Gray and Canet have yet to finish the script, there’s no word on when it might start shooting. And the title might change. But according to the director, “There looks to be some beautiful female parts.” He’s been dating Marion Cotillard for a few years, so put your own joke here.