Hollywood remakes of Japanese films

[Don Brown]

Going back to the recent discussion about decent candidates for a Hollywood 
remake, this story featured today on the Film Unlimited website.  I had a 
feeling that this would happen...

>Danger signals are flashing for one of the most strange and beautiful 
foreign-language films of recent years as Hollywood considers the 
possibility of a remake. It turns out that director Amy Heckerling is in 
negotiations to overhaul the 1998 Japanese fable After Life. Hirokazu 
Koreeda's acclaimed production is set in a bureacratic limbo where the 
recently deceased are encouraged to recreate their best memory from life. 
Released in the UK in 1999, the film finished the year on many critics' ten 
best lists. No doubt Heckerling - creator of Clueless and the seminal Look 
Who's Talking Too - will put her own California spin on the tale. 

Don Brown

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