{"id":1357,"date":"2008-10-29T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:07:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:07:17","slug":"nichols-mamet-and-scorsese-all-tapped-to-remake-kurosawas-high-and-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/29\/nichols-mamet-and-scorsese-all-tapped-to-remake-kurosawas-high-and-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Nichols, Mamet And Scorsese All Tapped To Remake Kurosawa&#8217;s HIGH AND LOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s detective drama <strong>High And Low<\/strong> is being set up for an English language version with Mike Nichol&#8217;s in the director&#8217;s chair, David Mamet on screenplay duties and Martin Scorsese serving as executive producer. Scorsese had originally started work on a remake of the film in 1999, but was stymied from moving forward for years due to rights issues.<\/p>\n<p>Kurosawa&#8217;s 1963 film was based on Evan Hunter&#8217;s 1959 detective novel <em>King&#8217;s Ransom<\/em>. In it, a business executive, longtime Kurosawa collaborator Toshiro Mifune,\u00a0 prepares to be a large ransom for his kidnapped son only to discover that it was actually his chauffeur&#8217;s son who was abducted. He is left with the moral dilemma of using the money to save his employee&#8217;s son or for its original purpose of a crucial corporate buyout.<\/p>\n<p>While most remakes and English-language adaptations of foreign films have that &#8220;Let&#8217;s make a quick buck&#8221; stink to them, no such whiff seems to emanate from this project. Scorsese has previously adapted another foreign language film, turning Andrew Lau&#8217;s <strong>Infernal Affairs<\/strong> into <strong>The Departed<\/strong>\u00a0and in the process managed to preserve the essence of of the original. I think that lightening can strike twice in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/mike-nichols-david-mamet-and-martin-scorsese-to-remake-akira-kurosawas-high-and-low\/\" target=\"_blank\">SlashFilm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s detective drama High And Low is being set up for an English language version with Mike Nichol&#8217;s in the director&#8217;s chair, David Mamet on screenplay duties and Martin Scorsese serving as executive producer. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/29\/nichols-mamet-and-scorsese-all-tapped-to-remake-kurosawas-high-and-low\/\" title=\"Nichols, Mamet And Scorsese All Tapped To Remake Kurosawa&#8217;s HIGH AND LOW\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[921,60,919,57,922,923,22,920,918,8,94],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-akira-kurosawa","8":"tag-book-to-film","9":"tag-david-mamet","10":"tag-directors","11":"tag-ed-mcbain","12":"tag-high-and-low","13":"tag-in-development","14":"tag-martin-scorsese","15":"tag-mike-nichols","16":"tag-remake","17":"tag-writers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}