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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
MOVIE NEWS
"Rapt" To Get An American
Makeover
Yvan Attal (left, foreground) in Lucas Belvaux's
"Rapt". The critically-acclaimed French film,
nominated for a Best Picture Cesar Award, will get an American makeover as
"Abduction". Diaphana
By Omar P.L. Moore/PopcornReel.com
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Today Smuggler Films announced that
it has obtained the remake rights to transform the 2009 French thriller "Rapt"
into an American film named "Abduction", a translation of the film's French
title.
"Rapt", nominated for a Best Picture
Cesar Award, stars Yvan
Attal and is based on the true story of the 1978 kidnapping of Baron Edouard-Jean
Empain, heir to a significant corporate dynasty (the Empire Schneider Dynasty)
in France. The film is directed by Lucas Belvaux and also stars Anne
Cosigny.
The psychological and visceral thriller has received tremendous critical acclaim
in France since its release last November. The Cesars will be awarded on
February 27.
The co-founder of Smuggler Films, Patrick Miller-Smith, commented in a statement
that "'Rapt'... has it all: kidnapping, mistresses, the avarice of corporate
culture and the tabloid exposure of a family living a lie. Lucas Belvaux's
original is a film that does not take the easy route with any of its narratives
and unflinchingly honest characters and we are left the richer for that."
"Rapt" website:
http://www.rapt-lefilm.com/
Read Omar's "Far-Flung Correspondent" reports for America's pre-eminent Film
Critic Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times -
here
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