Force Majeure is a movie you might have heard of following its win at Cannes last year. Empire** caught it at the Glasgow Film Festival this month and UK audiences will see it from next month. But thanks to that award win and a lot of positive buzz, Fox Searchlight has bought the rights to remake it for Stateside, subtitle-averse audiences. And the company has Veep’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus in talks to star{
Written and directed by Ruben Östlund, the film (AKA Turist) follows a family who are staying in a resort in the French Alps. They’re worried when an avalanche threatens to bury the place, and the father skedaddles like a coward and heads for safety. But when the avalanche passes with minimal impact and the family is reunited, huge, somewhat understandable cracks have appeared in their relationship, and things are unlikely to be the same again...
It’s early days for the remake and Louis-Dreyfus, last seen in Enough Said, is the only person even close to being attached at the moment. She’s planning to be a producer on the movie, and will no doubt help lock in a writer and director so it can move forward.
The original Force Majeure will arrive in UK cinemas on April 10.