MIckey Rourke to remake Mona Lisa

Another day another remake announced.

Mickey Rourke has signed on to star in a remake of classic 1980s British gangster film Mona Lisa.

The action will move to America and Rourke will play an ex-con who takes a job as a chauffeur for a high-class escort. Eva Green is in advanced negotiations to star opposite him.

Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson starred in the original 1986 film directed by Neil Jordan.

Larry Clark ("Kids," "Wassup Rockers") is writing and directing the remake.

The original was quite a small film and I think the tale will transfer quite well to an American setting. Plus Rourke is well suited for the role. Not sure about Eva Green playing the escort though.

Filming is set to begin in New York in July.

How do you feel about yet another remake? Do you think this one will work well?

Source: Variety




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The Graveyard Book - Another Neil Gaiman book heading for the big screen

Neil Jordan (Interview with a Vampire, A Company of Wolves) is down to direct a screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. All things Gaiman are hot right now with Coraline being splashed all over the web.

I picked up The Graveyard Book for my Wife for Christmas. I've not read it yet, but by all accounts it is meant to be excellent.

Shocktillyoudrop had the story.

It was reported in October that Framestore, a UK-based FX house, picked up the rights to the story. Gaiman, out promoting Coraline, told The Today Show today about Jordan's involvement.

"The Graveyard Book" focuses on the life of Nobody Owens, a boy raised by the dead in a cemetery. It was published by Harper Collins and released last year. Jordan was once attached to direct an adaptation of Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box, but he backed out last summer.

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