Okay, another day, another freaking remake. Ahh, you know how it is. It appears as if Orson Welles' 1946 film noir thriller The Stranger will soon be getting a remake and NGN Releasing have set Joseph Ruben to direct.
Best known for helming Sleeping With The Enemy and The Good Son, Ruben is directing from a script written by newcommer Alanna Belak and will focus on a ‘reformed serial killer who has reinvented himself as a small-town professor, but is visited by his former partner, who wants them to start killing together again.'
The original was directed by Welles, who also acted in the film, while Edward G. Robinson starred as an investigator of the War Crimes Commission on the hunt of one of the engineers of the Holocaust, now hiding out in Connecticut.
It's evident from the plot description that the Nazi-hunting will be of the utmost limited.
Ruben recently wrapped on a psychological thriller Penthouse North, which stars Michelle Monaghan as a photojournalist blinded in Iraq who becomes entangled in a sadistic criminal's (Michael Keaton) search for a missing fortune.
Check out the trailer and poster for the original.
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Source: Collider
