You guys ever see Chukiat Sakveerakul’s 13: GAME OF DEATH? The 2006 Thai thriller was pretty intense. Dimension Extreme released it on DVD in the U.S. back in 2008. If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend picking up a copy here. Not only is it a good movie, but you’ll want to see it before the Americanized remake comes along.
Yes, when a foreign movie is this good, we all know we’re going to get our own English remake eventually. Dimension Films originally had the rights, but the project sat on the shelf for so long that it fell out of option. Our boys at BD learned that Jason Blum and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones have acquired the rights to produce an English-language remake of 13: GAME OF DEATH.
Blum has served as producer on all three PARANORMAL ACTIVITY films, while Kavanaugh-Jones was responsible for SKYLINE. They teamed up for James Wan’s INSIDIOUS and are also producing Rob Zombie’s THE LORDS OF SALEM and Barry Levinson’s ISOPOD. Do you think that’s a good enough track record to handle this remake?
How far would you go to be rich beyond your dreams? A down-on-his luck salesman has lost his job, his car and his girlfriend. When a mysterious cell phone caller offers him $100 million to play a “game show” featuring 13 secret challenges, he is in. The catch? The tests grow increasingly intense and morally questionable, but if he quits he loses everything.
INSIDIOUS star Rose Byrne
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