Here’s another remake we didn’t need.
Chris Rock is set to direct “Another Round”, a remake of the 2020 Thomas Vinterberg-directed black comedy that won the Oscar for Best International Film.
Stuart Bloomberg wrote the first draft of the remake and another writer has been hired to work with Rock. Honestly, what is there to say? At this point, Hollywood is so allergic to original content that even their non-IP content has to have been based on a previous film.
Vinterberg’s “Another Round” starred Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang and Lars Ranthe as four high school teachers who act on a theory that a certain alcohol level boosts creativity and happiness. They decide to conduct this experiment by maintaining a constant level of inebriation throughout their workday.
Rock seems to have now made directing films a priority, as he is already tapped to helm the “definitive cinematic biopic” about the life of Martin Luther King Jr, for Universal Pictures. Deadline also reports that he’s working on a third film, but plot details remain mum for that one.
Rock has directed three features to date, all comedies, with 2014’s “Top Five” having gotten good reviews. This means we’ll have to wait just a little longer for that “Pootie Tang” sequel. That’s fine, but Rock should known that there’s an audience out there for that one.
UPDATE: Actually, come to think of it, one of the films Rock directed was 2007’s “I Think I Love My Wife” which also happened to be a remake of Eric Rohmer’s “Love in the Afternoon.” It wasn’t good.