'Train' en route to English remake
'Train' remake
May 26, 2004
Patrice Leconte's "Man on the Train" is getting an English-language makeover at Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment.
Harley Peyton -- whose credits include "Less Than Zero," "Bandits" and "Twin Peaks" -- is penning the project, with Cooper producing and Landscape senior vp feature films Karen Lunder executive producing.
Peyton also penned "I Know That You Know That I Know," which Landscape has set up at New Line Cinema as a starring vehicle for Jim Carrey.
"Man on the Train" is about two men -- opposites in every way -- who decide that the other man's life is the one they want.
"It is a comedy about two very different men who decide to exchange lives, even though one of them will be in jeopardy," Cooper said. "This marks our second collaboration with Harley Peyton, who has an original style and whose movies we believe will have great commercial appeal."
Leconte's original French version, starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday, was released in France in 2002 and distributed last year in the United States by Paramount Classics.
Landscape Entertainment recently re-upped its first-look production deal with New Line, where it has numerous projects in the pipeline.
Other Landscape projects include MGM's "Sleepover"; the Paramount Pictures thriller "Au Pair," starring Mandy Moore; Revolution Studios' "The Hypnotist," starring Jim Carrey; and "John Tucker," written by Jeff Lowell for 20th Century Fox.
Harley Peyton -- whose credits include "Less Than Zero," "Bandits" and "Twin Peaks" -- is penning the project, with Cooper producing and Landscape senior vp feature films Karen Lunder executive producing.
Peyton also penned "I Know That You Know That I Know," which Landscape has set up at New Line Cinema as a starring vehicle for Jim Carrey.
"Man on the Train" is about two men -- opposites in every way -- who decide that the other man's life is the one they want.
"It is a comedy about two very different men who decide to exchange lives, even though one of them will be in jeopardy," Cooper said. "This marks our second collaboration with Harley Peyton, who has an original style and whose movies we believe will have great commercial appeal."
Leconte's original French version, starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday, was released in France in 2002 and distributed last year in the United States by Paramount Classics.
Landscape Entertainment recently re-upped its first-look production deal with New Line, where it has numerous projects in the pipeline.
Other Landscape projects include MGM's "Sleepover"; the Paramount Pictures thriller "Au Pair," starring Mandy Moore; Revolution Studios' "The Hypnotist," starring Jim Carrey; and "John Tucker," written by Jeff Lowell for 20th Century Fox.
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