Los Angeles Sep 24 (IANS) "La Casa Muda" director Gustavo Hernández has secured the rights for a remake of 2013 Israeli black comedy horror-thriller film "Big Bad Wolves".
Producer Ignacio Cucucovich s Mother Superior will collaborate with Hernandez in recreating the film reports variety.com.
Talking about the remake Hernandez said: "The ambition to adapt a film like ‘Big Bad Wolves comes from the context of the region where I live.
It allows me to develop a cathartic story on injustice as a citizen father and cineaste. The reversion will be agile raw and visceral making the audience part of the ethical decisions responsibilities and consequences which the film s protagonists will suffer because of their actions."
Directed by Israel s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado "Big Bad Wolves" centres around a vigilante policeman to snare the series of brutal murders a kind of Dirty Harry figure who is dismissed from the police force when he hires two thugs to beat up a suspect.
"Big Bad Wolves" was described as the best film of the year at the Busan Festival in 2013.

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