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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Universal Plans to Remake ON THE JOB

As many of us already know, the Filipino film "On The Job" made such an impact internationally that it attracted US and French distributors. Now, Variety reports that Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to the movie with Scott Stuber on board to produce, and Baltasar Kormakur, director of Contraband and 2 Guns, on board to write and direct the remake. Local media has been speculating the possibility of Mark Wahlberg and Tom Cruise playing the roles in the remake, as based on an interview of Gerald Anderson with ABS CBN News. Canadian critic Chris Bumbray also made news early this month when he nominated Bryan Cranston (star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad) to star as the remake's lead. All these are mere casting buzz for now, since no actors have been officially cast as of yet. [hit the jump to continue]

Even before "On The Job" (OTJ) came in the picture, Kormakur was already working on a project which has similar aspects and based on similar events with OTJ. Based on variety's report, Kormakur was working on the project ever since before OTJ itself came into production.

But we could only assume that the studio and producers might have blended the two ideas together and use the popularity of "On The Job" to package Kormakur's project and also use this to market their own US-based distribution of the original OTJ, as a result, both movies would be marketing each other.

For the meantime, Kormakur is still having his hands' full developing the movie "Everest", which tells the disastrous tale of a 1996 expedition to climb the title mountain that ended in the death of eight climbers after a storm hit.  Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Jake Gyllenhaal and Jason Clarke are attached. It is also set up at Universal Pictures.

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