Another day, another U.S. copy of a hot foreign film.
This time, it’s 13, Gela Babluani’s remake of French psychological thriller 13 Tzameti. The 2005 original, which Babluani wrote and directed, won the grand jury prize for world cinema at the Sundance Film Festival.
Sam Riley, who played Joy Division’s Ian Curtis in Control, plays a young man who stumbles into an underground competition where the wealthy gamble on human beings in a Russian Roulette-style competition. Mickey Rourke‘s a convict who is sold into the competition, Ray Winstone‘s a competitor released from a mental institution to participate and 50 Cent‘s an employee assigned to escort Rourke‘s character to the game.
And that’s not all. Jason Statham‘s a wealthy Brit who bets on the competition and has a peculiar interest in one of the competitors. Ray Liotta‘s a cop on the trail of the illegal game.
Production begins in New York on Nov. 20, according to Variety.
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