It seems that following MGM’s recent pre-packaged bankruptcy, a lot of projects that were stalled there during the company’s financial woes are now free to find new life elsewhere. One of those is Timecrimes, the proposed remake of the acclaimed 2007 Spanish sci-fi thriller, which had been in the works at MGM subsidiary United Artists but has now moved to Dreamworks.
And with the move of studios comes a new screenwriter, with Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Gangs Of New York) reworking the Timothy J. Sexton screenplay drafts. Zaillian was attached as a producer when the film was at UA, but is now writing it too, which also leaves open the possibility he might direct. Zaillian also wrote the screenplay for David Fincher’s upcoming version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
It’s difficult to say too much about Timecrimes without giving the game away, other than to say it’s about a man who gets into a complex and mystifying chain of cause and effect after he is stabbed and then ends up in a time machine that takes him back an hour into the past. (Source: Deadline)