Time Crimes to be Remade by United Artists
“…and it’s really that easy.”
Chances are you haven’t yet seen the Spanish science fiction film Time Crimes (aka Timecrimes, Los Cronocrimenes), but if you’ve read about it, you had to flip on your monitor’s praise-wipers afterwards. Tom Cruise’s United Artists has purchased the rights to remake the film, marking the first deal the studio’s made since cutting a deal with the Writers’ Guild. Writer-Producer Steve Zallian (American Gangster) will produce the film. Time Crimes is currently at the Sundance Film Festival, where it’s picking up a far amount of the praise stuff thus far.
The film, from writer-director Nacho Vigalondo, centers on an aloof man who views a naked lady in the woods one day, decides to investigate and soon finds himself in a time machine. And as you probably know from personal experience, this leads to a string crimes.
If you’ve found yourself wondering about the fate of more adult, brainier sci-fi these days in lieu of action-filled PG-13 efforts like Next and Jumper, the genre seems to be festering nicely on the indie circuit. Low budget flicks like Time Crimes, Primer, A Scanner Darkly and the granddaddy Pi continue to grow in frequency and popularity, replacing loud spectacle with thrilling internal dissonance, paranoia and external eternal questions. Are there any other movies that fit into this promising niche that you’ve enjoyed or loathed?