Wednesday, October 18, 2006
By: MrDisgusting
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Have any of you seen Palm Pictures' 13 Tzameti (review) yet? Probably not considering it was released only in NY- but if you did you know how phenomenal of a film it was. It was so impressive that remake talk began almost immediately. Well guys and gals, official word has come down that French director-writer Gela Babluani will be remaking his own film, which will now simply be titled 13! Read on for the skinny.
Georgian-born French director-writer Gela Babluani will shoot a U.S. remake of thriller "13 Tzameti," which was released Stateside by Palm Pictures earlier this year, according to Variety.
English-language remake of the striking French pic, involving clandestine gamblers who bet on human lives, is being produced by New York-based Italo producer Valerio Morabito ("Kiss Me First") and his partner, Simon O'Leary.
Babluani said their Morabito Pictures shingle have a deal with tenpercentery Endeavor, which has packaged the pic, budgeted at $15 million-$20 million.
Plan is to shoot the remake -- which is titled "13" -- in an undetermined U.S. location starting next spring.
Babluani has been scouting locations in Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia while also penning an English-language redraft of the script in collaboration with yank scribe Gregory Prusse.
The 28-year-old Babluani, the son of well-known Georgian helmer Temur Babluani, made an impressive debut with "13 Tzameti."
The black-and-white pic scooped the Venice Lion of the Future and the Sundance world cinema competition prizes and sold to more than 20 territories.
While the original was deliberately not contextualized in a specific time or place, his remake project will unmistakably be set in contempo America, said Babluani, who is reworking some of the storyline.
"The movie is about a game. So the rules of the game will essentially stay the same. But I really want to introduce new characters and situations," he added.
The helmer was at the RomeFilmFest to promote the world preem of his sophomore work, "The Legacy," co-helmed in Georgia with his father.
Source: Variety
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