It is only a matter of time before some popular foreign film gets put on the adaptation/remake block to make it more English friendly. Ron Howard, who recently carried his axe away from The Da Vinci Code, is looking to join with Brian Grazer to give us an American version of Cache.
Ron Howard, Brian Grazer for Cache
Universal owns the rights to Cache and they are hoping that Ron Howard will take the reigns. Brian Grazer is already set to produce under Imagine, who helped secure the rights to the film from Plum Pictures.
Michael Haneke wrote and helmed the French original, which starred Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche as a couple who find increasingly violent videos on their porch. The film went on to win Haneke director prize at Cannes plus a domestic release through Sony Classics.
Universal plans to make the story more suspenseful while adding larger consequences for the characters.
If Howard agrees to do Cache he will be adding the film to an extensive (and growing) to-do list. The director has several other projects including Frost/Nixon, Angels & Demons and The Look of Real.
Plum's Celine Rattray will exec produce Cache along with Randy Simon.
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