Ok, so 50 Cent is the weak link, and Statham can be an action dunder-head, but damn, this cast is pretty impressive otherwise.
Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, Jason Statham, Sam Riley (he played Joy Division’s Ian Curtis in “Control”), 50 Cent and Ray Liotta will star in “13,” the English-language remake of the 2005 French flick “13 Tzameti.” Good cast, we’ll keep an eye on that one. The original is in our Netflix queue cause we missed it the first go-round.
The writer and the director of the original, Gela Babluani, has written the script and will direct the production which begins in New York on Nov. 20. Re-directing your own work for U.S. audiences has got to be tedious as fuck, but hell, it’s probably hard to say no to that kind of money and that opportunity. [Variety]
Here’s a trailer for the original.
Good cast…but it's really dependent on how much he diverts from the original. '13 Tzameti' (a redundant title, really) was pretty sick, and only in part because it was in b&w, so I hope he at least shoots it that way and not in a standard gritty action, sun-baked overexposure kind of way (nor in the metallic blue/grey hue of modern thrillers and city dramas).