Tim Roth in ‘Funny Games’ remake
Michael Haneke is a filmmaker that divides audiences and critics alike. His films of often difficult watches, interesting and intriguing (and occasionaly confusing) but difficult. 'Funny Games' (1998) was no exception, a story about a family that are held captive in their lakeside holiday home and slowly tortured (physically and mentally) and made to play sadistic games with each other by two young men.
I read a couple of weeks ago that Haneke was planning to remake 'Funny Games' in english and had cast Naomi Watts as the mother of the captive family. Dark Horizons is now reporting that Tim Roth has been cast as the father of the group with shooting set to begin in September.
It's an interesting choice to remake your own film, and If I ever wanted to see any of Haneke's films remade, 'Funny Games' is probably a good choice.
Obviously the 'we hate remakes' crew are already 'throwing their toys out of the pram' on messgae boards everywhere
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August 26th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
have you ever seen ‘Made in Britain’ one of the best Tim Roth films, he’s a neo-nazi, but it’s more about being young and disaffected… really great film