Sentences with phrase «remade as a thriller»

With a mood and setting worthy of a murder story by Jack London, this audience - friendly, atmospheric work could be remade as a thriller, although that's really what it is already.

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About four years ago, Lionsgate announced it was planning to remake «American Psycho,» the Wall Street serial killer psychological thriller that boasted a star - making turn by Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman.

His resumé — in this capacity — includes such films as Kafka (1991), Eisenstein (as the famous Russian director), and Jonathan Demme's political thriller remake The Manchurian Candidate (2004).

Harris» feature films for 2004 include the live - action remake Thunderbirds and the thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth.Though her star was steadily rising in Hollywood, it wasn't until 2006 that Harris would really make a splash on stateside screens; and after supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

A good little thriller which has already been remade by Brian Depalma as «Passion» and whose version I am sure will contain a lot more sex and style.That is not meant in any way to be detrimental to what we have here.

With a fistful of Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Actor), a couple of sequels and a twenty - years - later remake and spin - off TV series, this adaptation of John Ball's lean thriller obviously qualifies as more than just another small town murder mystery.

Remade from Michael Winner's 1972 thriller, this action movie can't be bothered to get as dark and edgy as it should be.

A remake of the 1990 thriller, Flatliners stars Ellen Page as a medical school student who gets her friends to participate in an experiment exploring...

A remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's 1990s thriller, the film (which also marks director Luis Prieto's English - language debut) watches as a drug lord's life implodes, a process with which filmgoers are quite familiar.

The attempt to make a new version — once touted as a remake — of Gareth Evans» excellent action thriller The Raid has had a typically torturous development battle with actors and directors named then departing.

Earlier this year his voice was heard as the villain in Netflix's «Death Note,» next month he will be seen in the remake of the thriller «Murder on the Orient Express» and next year he'll have a prominent role in the superhero spectacle «Aquaman.»

Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing from Another Planet is a pulse - racing, terrifying, claustrophobic horror - thriller that featured (quite literally) out of this world make - up and visual effects that remain as gruesomely effective today as they were then.

Co-written by estimable Frownland director Ronald Bronstein, it's inspired by the experiences of street kid Arielle Holmes, who plays a fictional version of herself alongside actor Caleb Landry Jones in what's described as «a tumultuous drama about a New York City couple battling addiction in the midst of a love affair»... And finally, the prize for oddest remake of the week: French thriller specialist Jean - François Richet is changing gear rather alarmingly with his, er, «reboot» is the word I'm looking for, of Claude Berri's 1977 comedy Un moment d'égarement, in which two fathers take their sexy adolescent daughters on vacation — and one of them is seduced by the other's jeune fille.

No B - movie, this spooky 1953 hit holds up remarkably well, as does the less gimmicky, more dated thriller it remakes.

As far as unnecessary remakes go, this revamp of the 1973 George A Romero B - movie thriller is actually pretty good fun, thanks to sharp direction, a strong cast and some extremely unnerving touches.In a small.As far as unnecessary remakes go, this revamp of the 1973 George A Romero B - movie thriller is actually pretty good fun, thanks to sharp direction, a strong cast and some extremely unnerving touches.In a small.as unnecessary remakes go, this revamp of the 1973 George A Romero B - movie thriller is actually pretty good fun, thanks to sharp direction, a strong cast and some extremely unnerving touches.In a small...

Director David Fincher subsequently cast her as the lead, Lisbeth Salander, in his thriller remake, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium book series.

Superficially, the plotline of Obsessed reads like a thinly - veiled remake of Fatal Attraction, as it features so many similarities to that classic thriller that the original's scriptwriter, James Dearden, deserves to share a credit for the screenplay.

The same year she sang «Que Sera, Sera» for Hitchcock as the menaced mom in Hitch's remake of «The Man Who Knew Too Much,» Doris Day played a comely stewardess stalked by her psycho ex-husband, Louis Jourdan, in this lady - in - distress thriller from the poor man's Hitchcock, Andrew Stone.

I don't think anyone expected «Let Me In,» the remake of the Swedish winter - dark vampire thriller «Let the Right One In,» to show up this year, being both a remake and a horror film, but this perfectly - realized film surely deserves a nod as much as (if not more than) most films that made the cut.

Scott Cooper, director of last year's Jeff Bridges - led musical tale of redemption «Crazy Heart,» is reportedly attached to direct a remake of Pablo Trapero «s 2010 thriller «Carancho,» which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year in the Un Certain Regard category and has been submitted as Argentina's representative for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.

Remake of 1974 thriller set in New York's subway bristles with high - tech gimcrackery as John Travolta and Denzel Washington play tense head games.

GET CARTER By Graham Fuller Skip the impending Stallone remake and see the hard - as - nails 1971 revenge thriller that made Michael Caine the ultimate icon of British gangster cool.

Tony Scott's workmanlike remake of the classic 1970s thriller stars Denzel Washington as a New York subway dispatcher who ends up being the go - between in a subterranean hostage crisis.

Austria's king of pain, Michael Haneke, has remade his own 1997 home - invasion thriller with Hollywood actors, preserving every chilly composition and scalpel - like edit as if to say, «I got it right the first time.»

Canet is mostly known in the U.S. as an actor or Marion Cotillard's baby daddy, but anyone who saw the overlooked and taut 2006 thriller «Tell No One» knows he's akin to the Gallic version of Ben Affleck — an actor who has bloomed into a terrific director (maybe not so coincidentally, Affleck's been trying to remake Canet's film).

Director McTiernan is no stranger to thrillers, having directed such notable entries as Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October, and coming off of the dismal remake of Rollerball, he puts his all into crafted an engaging esoteric thriller.

Univeral's Scarface remake loses its 2018 release date, even as director Antoine Fuqua re-enters discussions for the crime drama / thriller.

An American remake sounded like a suicide mission, the sort of wrong - headed thinking that allowed the superb and uncompromising Dutch thriller The Vanishing to be remade as a dim - witted Yankee property, complete with a tacked - on happy ending.

Death Wish This is a credible remake of the famous Charles Bronson thriller, taking into account the differences between today and 1974, and starring Bruce Willis as the mild - mannered, upper - middle - class man who becomes a vigilante when his wife and daughters become victims of violent crime.

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R for violence and pervasive profanity) Denzel Washington stars in this remake of the 1974 action thriller as the veteran NYC subway dispatcher who saves the day when a gang threatens to execute the passengers of hijacked train unless paid a mammoth ransom within an hour.

As a foreign language title, perhaps the best comparison is the Belgian thriller Loft, which was later adapted for US audiences by the same director but starring X-Man James Marsden (another of those remakes that fell off the rope ladder and into the abyss).

In movies as diverse as «Mission: Impossible 3,» the Farrelly brothers» comedy remake, «The Heartbreak Kid,» and the hard - edged thriller, «Gone Baby Gone,» the willowy small - town brunette with the killer smile is definitely playing in the big time now.