Details are still sketchy, but Latino Review are reporting that Kate Beckinsale has come aboard **Contraband, the newly-monikered remake of Reykjavik-Rotterdam.
The project was announced a year or so ago, with Mark Wahlberg producing and Baltasar Kormákur, who starred in the original, replacing Óskar Jónasson as director.
The story revolves around a former smuggler turned security guard, lured back to the wrong side of the law when he finds himself in tricky financial straits: a plan that goes south when violent drug dealers get involved and his family is threatened. The original film won several Edda awards in its native Iceland, and was the country's submission in 2008 for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar, although it didn't end up bagging a nomination.
The Working Title remake (with the name-change prompted by a shift in location, like what we predicted) has been adapted from the original by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners). Wahlberg will play Kormákur's old role (so the director should be handy for notes), and we'd guess that Beckinsale will take the part of Iris, originally played by Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir.
No news of a start-date so far. We'll keep you posted.