Chris Addison to make feature directorial on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake

Veep director Chris Addison has signed on to direct the remake of 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Nasty Women will mark his feature directorial debut.
Australian comedienne Rebel Wilson is already attached to the female-led revamp, and Academy Award-winner Anne Hathaway is circling the second main role, according to reports.
The original movie featured Steve Martin and Michael Caine as rival con men fighting to cheat an heiress out of $50,000 (£40,000). Hathaway and Wilson will play the kooky scam artists in the new film, with one portraying a classy villain and the other a common crook. The devious con women will attempt to steal a naive tech prodigy’s entire fortune.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels isn’t the only classic movie revamp to be given a gender-bending makeover – Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez will step into Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell’s roles for the remake of Garry Marshall’s Overboard. In the 1987 film, Hawn played as a spoiled woman who falls overboard on a yacht and wakes up in hospital with amnesia. A carpenter, played by Russell, convinces her that she’s his wife and the mother of his kids.
In the remake, the roles will be reversed and Derbez will portray a playboy from a wealthy Mexican family who falls overboard from his yacht and wakes up believing he is married to single mother Faris.
And last year (16), it was announced Channing Tatum would be taking over actress Daryl Hannah’s role in a planned Splash reboot. The 1984 original starred Daryl as a mermaid who falls in love with the grown-up kid she saved as a child, played by Tom Hanks.
In the new version, Channing will play a merman and his 22 Jump Street co-star Jillian Bell will portray his human love interest.