Brian De Palma, whom we haven’t heard much from in quite a while, is going back to his favorite subgenre: the Hitchcockian thriller. The director of DRESSED TO KILL and CARRIE has signed on to direct PASSION, a remake of the French thriller LOVE CRIME.
According to Variety, the original centered on (warning: SPOILER ALERT) two feuding corporate execs, one of whom is driven to murder the other.
“Not since ‘Dressed to Kill’ have I had a chance to combine eroticism, suspense, mystery and murder into one spellbinding cinematic experience,” De Palma told Variety.
The film has a budget of $30 million and will go into production this summer. The cast is to be announced at the Cannes Film Festival. Kristen Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier (pictured below) starred in the original, which only came out last year.
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