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Oscar winner "Lives of Others" set for remake

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-03-02 09:29





Ulrich Muehe and Ulrich Tukur in a scene from the film "The Lives of
Others" in a photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. The Oscar-winning
German spy drama is set to be remade as an English-language movie, Daily
Variety reported in its Thursday edition. [Reuters]

ANGELES - The Oscar-winning German spy drama "The Lives of Others" is
set to be remade as an English-language movie, Daily Variety reported in
its Thursday edition.

The trade paper said the project would be developed by former Miramax
Films chiefs Bob and Harvey Weinstein, and filmmakers Sydney Pollack and
Anthony Minghella.

"We would just desperately love for that film to be something that
reaches more people (via remake)," Pollack was quoted as telling the
paper. "We haven't gotten locked into making it yet, but we're working
hard at trying to get it going."

Pollack and his partners worked on the deal with "Lives" writer/director
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who won the foreign-language Academy
Award on Sunday for his debut feature. It was not clear what the
Oxford-educated filmmaker's involvement with the remake would be.

"The Lives of Others" revolves around a secret agent in 1980s East
Germany who wiretaps the apartment of an artistic couple, and finds
himself sucked into their lives, with tragic consequences. After three
weeks in limited release across North America through Sony Corp.'s Sony
Pictures Classics, it has sold $1.3 million worth of tickets.

The Weinstein brothers are developing through their Weinstein Co., while
Pollack and Minghella are partners in Mirage Prods. Pollack won Oscars
for producing and directing the 1985 movie "Out of Africa," and Minghella
won a statuette for directing 1996's "The English Patient."












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