Another Japanese Remake in the Works

According to CNN News Robert De Niro will produce and possibly star in an American remake of Hideo Nakata’s 1999 crime/suspense drama Chaos, for Universal Pictures. The film “follows a young grifter who gets involved in the kidnapping of the wife of a wealthy businessman. The woman is all too willing to be tied up and stored in the grifter’s house when the kidnapper leaves to make his ransom demand. Things become complicated when he returns home and finds the woman is dead.”

Chaos is the third Japanese suspense film directed by Hideo Nakata to be optioned for an American remake following DreamWorks’ production of an American version of The Ring and Pandemonium Films’ option for an American remake of the director’s latest film, Dark Water.

Source: Anime News Service