Taken 2 and American Remake of District B13 On the Cards
Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 by Brendon Connelly
Mediacorp scriptmeister Robert Mark Kamen has been telling the Los Angeles Times all about his next assignments for the big French action factory, and both of the films they namedrop are seemingly inevitable responses to the studio’s past glories.
Besides a sequel to Taken, the sleeper hit of the year (so far), Kamen is also crafting the screenplay for a US set rehash of Banlieue 13 - or District B13 as it was already renamed in English speaking territories. The original took an American paradigm - Escape From New York, essentially - and gave it such a specifically French spin that, frankly, I don’t know what sort of mess we’ll end up with after it gets spun back the other way.
