James Mangold To Direct Icelandic Thriller Remake CITY STATE
Whilst we awaits Hugh Jackman's schedule to free up to film The Wolverine, Mangold takes on a converging narratives drug trade Indie thriller remake.
James Mangold, the super talented master of all trades director behind Cop Land, Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma and Knight & Day had been expected to be shooting Hugh Jackman in The Wolverine right now, but with the actor lured into the bumped up Les Miserables adaptation delaying the X-Men prequel by at least six months, the helmer is now looking to for a new project to fill his time. Deadline reports that Mangold has struck a deal to direct the Indie film City State, a remake of Iceland director Olaf de Fleur Johannessons converging narratives drug trade thriller that hasn't even opened in his own country yet. Presumably Mangold has actually seen the film for himself but who knows. IMDB have the plot details;
When a foreign mafia decides to take control of the Icelandic drug market, a police woman lost in violence, a mechanic revenging for his lost son, a crime kingpin with a heart condition, a corrupt officer in love with a prostitute will destroy each other.The English language movie will most likely be an Americanised version of this tale and as no word on a screenwriter. Perhaps all they have done is copy the script into google translator and change the language to English. Here's the trailer for the original;