Hollywood remakes of Japanese films

[Stephen Cremin]

Going even further back to the original question, I think THE MAN WHO STOLE
THE SUN is ripe for a remake.  There's been many US films about terrorists
who've got their mits on a nuclear bomb and knew exactly what to do with it.
 But beauty of this film is that once he has the power, No 8 hasn't got a
clue what to ask for ... other than no news break during a baseball game. 
Of course that might explain Eminem and Elton John on stage together at the
Grammy's...

Stephen


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>From: "Don Brown" <the8thsamurai at hotmail.com>
>To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Hollywood remakes of Japanese films
>Date: Fri, Feb 23, 2001 10:04
>

>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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