The Eye (2008)

Warner Bros and Producer Roy Lee To Develop Remake of Tiff Hit ‘Sleepless Night’

[1] I walked out of an early Toronto International Film Festival press screening 10 days ago ranting and raving about Frédéric Jardin's incredible French contained action thriller Sleepless Night. I posted an enthusiastic review [2] on September 12th calling it "one of the best and tightest written action thrillers I've seen in the past few years" and predicted that some lucky Hollywood studio would be developing a big budget American remake within the week. I was a little off in my prediction timeline, but ten days later The Hollywood Reporter [3] has learned that Warner Bros and Roy Lee will be producing the American-language adaptation. Lee is probably best known as the producer of some of the hotter Asian-to-American remakes of the last decade, include The Ring series, The Departed , The Grudge series, The Eye , as well as How to Train Your Dragon and Abduction . Lee has a long list of projects in
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