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| Dennis Lehane to script Hollywood remake of A Prophet | Dennis Lehane to script Hollywood remake of A Prophet |
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| Mystic River author Dennis Lehane has been hired to write the American remake of Jacques Audiard's award-winning crime drama A Prophet. | Mystic River author Dennis Lehane has been hired to write the American remake of Jacques Audiard's award-winning crime drama A Prophet. |
| Lehane, several of whose novels have been adapted successfully for the screen, including Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island as well as Mystic River, has been taken on by Sony, as according to Variety, the material was considered to "fit Lehane's style". | Lehane, several of whose novels have been adapted successfully for the screen, including Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island as well as Mystic River, has been taken on by Sony, as according to Variety, the material was considered to "fit Lehane's style". |
| A Prophet premiered at Cannes in 2009, winning the runner-up grand prix award. Co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit, it is the epic tale of a French-Algerian teenager who falls in with the Corsican mafia while in jail, and eventually becomes a top-level gangster in his own right. The film starred Tahar Rahim in a breakout role. | A Prophet premiered at Cannes in 2009, winning the runner-up grand prix award. Co-written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit, it is the epic tale of a French-Algerian teenager who falls in with the Corsican mafia while in jail, and eventually becomes a top-level gangster in his own right. The film starred Tahar Rahim in a breakout role. |
| Plans for a remake were announced earller this year, under the stewardship of Fast and Furious producer Neal Moritz. No word is forthcoming on any potential directors or actors, but Lehane enjoys a close working relationship with Ben Affleck, who directed and starred in the film of Gone Baby Gone, and is currently working on an adaptation of Lehane's 2012 novel Live by Night. | Plans for a remake were announced earller this year, under the stewardship of Fast and Furious producer Neal Moritz. No word is forthcoming on any potential directors or actors, but Lehane enjoys a close working relationship with Ben Affleck, who directed and starred in the film of Gone Baby Gone, and is currently working on an adaptation of Lehane's 2012 novel Live by Night. |
| • A Prophet set for Hollywood remake • Xan Brooks on A Prophet: 'An electrifying tale of survival against the odds' | • A Prophet set for Hollywood remake • Xan Brooks on A Prophet: 'An electrifying tale of survival against the odds' |
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