Credit: Variety
Ron Howard may unlock an American version of Cache for Universal, reports Variety.
Brian Grazer will produce the remake for Imagine, which acquired the rights from Plum Pictures, with Howard looking to direct.
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. Haneke won the director prize at Cannes for the film in 2005.
Sony Classics released it Stateside late that year; it went on to earn $3.6 million at the domestic box office. Universal’s version, to be set in the U.S., is expected to amp up the suspense and consequences.
Howard has several other potential projects in the near future. Besides Frost/Nixon, the bigscreen adaptation of the play, there’s The Da Vinci Code follow-up Angels & Demons and The Look of Real, an examination of the garment industry that could star his daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard.
In a related story, Michael Haneke will be Americanizing his film Funny Games, which was originally released in 1997; the remake will star Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet.
