Tell No One is one of my favorite thrillers of the last decade. Check it out on Netflix Watch Instantly. The director Guillaume Canet will team with Two Lovers director James Gray for a U.S.-set thriller in his English-language debut. They worked together on the screenplay that has a working title of Rivals. Variety speculates that his “real-life companion Marion Cotillard could be up for one of the femme leads.”
The film is “loosely inspired by Jacques Maillot‘s 2008 Les Liens du sang which takes place in the 1970s underworld of Lyons. That film actually starred Canet. This English version will still take place in ’70’s but take place in Philadelphia. But for those worred about a remake, don’t worry. The producer says “the film is not really a remake, it’s a completely different story, set in a completely different environment.”
Canet is currently directing Marion Cotillard in Little White Lies, but we will have to see if she joins this project.
Did you like Tell No One? How does Rivals sound?