By No, there’s no Zelda Wind Waker movie that you missed, calm down.
Celda 211 is the Spanish prison film that flooded the Goya Awards in 2009 and won eight awards with ease. The plot has been compared to movies such as Con Air and Die Hard due to the story revolving around a prison revolt during a new guard’s first day, where he must pretend to be an inmate during the whole ordeal just to survive. Needless to say, with today’s Let Me In mindset of waiting for foreign films to produce something great and then remaking it instead of re-releasing it overseas, it was inevitable that someone would want a piece of this film’s potential remake profits.
CBS Films is attempting to buy the rights to the film, with Paul Haggis rumored to adapt the screenplay and possibly even sit in the director’s chair. With Paul’s previous writing experience (hold your breath: Quantum of Solace, The Black Donnellys, Letters from Iwo Jima, Casino Royale, Flags of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, *breathe*, and Crash) let’s just say that, yeah, it’s a bad standard that’s being set in the industry, but I’m still…
No, there's no Zelda Wind Waker movie that you missed, calm down.
Celda 211 is the Spanish prison film that flooded the Goya Awards in 2009 and won eight awards with ease. The plot has been compared to movies such as Con Air and Die Hard due to the story revolving around a prison revolt during a new guard's first day, where he must pretend to be an inmate during the whole ordeal just to survive. Needless to say, with today's Let Me In mindset of waiting for foreign films to produce something great and then remaking it instead of re-releasing it overseas, it was inevitable that someone would want a piece of this film's potential remake profits.
CBS Films is attempting to buy the rights to the film, with Paul Haggis rumored to adapt the screenplay and possibly even sit in the director's chair. With Paul's previous writing experience (hold your breath: Quantum of Solace, The Black Donnellys, Letters from Iwo Jima, Casino Royale, Flags of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, *breathe*, and Crash) let's just say that, yeah, it's a bad standard that's being set in the industry, but I'm still optimistic if he's stapled to this "Cell 211" remake project.
[Via Deadline]