Bill Gerber Remaking Yakuza at WB
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
August 11, 2005
Billy Gerber (The Dukes of Hazzard) is remaking the 1975 film The Yakuza for Warner Bros. Pictures, says The Hollywood Reporter. It will be written by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell.
The original was directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starred Robert Mitchum as a man who returns to Japan after a lengthy absence to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter, ensuing in samurai swords slashing and guns blazing.
The new version, which the studio is envisioning as a two-hander, will be set in contemporary times and also will reflect a more multiethnic Japan.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
August 11, 2005
Billy Gerber (The Dukes of Hazzard) is remaking the 1975 film The Yakuza for Warner Bros. Pictures, says The Hollywood Reporter. It will be written by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell.
The original was directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starred Robert Mitchum as a man who returns to Japan after a lengthy absence to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter, ensuing in samurai swords slashing and guns blazing.
The new version, which the studio is envisioning as a two-hander, will be set in contemporary times and also will reflect a more multiethnic Japan.
