The LE CERCLE ROUGE Remake Moving From Johnnie To To John Hillcoat?
That the Media Asia backed, Hong Kong and Macau set remake of Jean Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge has lost original director Johnnie To is not news. To told us so himself while attending the Toronto International Film Festival in September. However, those who assumed from that bit of news that the project was now dead may have been a bit premature.
Word is now out that the directing gig has been offered to Australia's John Hillcoat and, from the sounds of things, the director of The Road and The Proposition has accepted. In an interview last week Hillcoat tipped his involvement with the project saying he has "another contemporary thriller, crime thriller, set in Hong Kong and Macau." It appears that this is Le Cercle Rouge. And while Hillcoat may not be an obvious choice for the job he certainly strikes me as a good one.
Word is now out that the directing gig has been offered to Australia's John Hillcoat and, from the sounds of things, the director of The Road and The Proposition has accepted. In an interview last week Hillcoat tipped his involvement with the project saying he has "another contemporary thriller, crime thriller, set in Hong Kong and Macau." It appears that this is Le Cercle Rouge. And while Hillcoat may not be an obvious choice for the job he certainly strikes me as a good one.
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