You'd be forgiven for thinking remake fever has struck Hollywood this week, with Total Recall, Barbarella, **Scream **and **Hamlet **all being lined-up for remakes or reboots. The make-over mayhem doesn't end with English-language movies, though: Paul Haggis is teaming up again with his **Crash **muckers Lionsgate for The Next Three Days, a remake of French thriller Pour Elle, which he will write, direct and produce.
Lionsgate aren't hanging around, commissioning a remake of a film that's not even out in the UK until Friday. Swift work indeed; although, in fairness, Pour Elle has reviewed well, with Diane Kruger and Vincent Lindon playing a happily married couple whose lives are thrown into turmoil when she is wrongly imprisoned for murder.
Haggis is promising **The Next Three Days **will provide equal amounts of emotional turmoil, as well as an exploration of the "depths of faith and the limits of love". He'll get started on all this emotionality when principal photography begins in August.