Sony to remake Cannes, Cesar winning “A Prophet” French crime pic

PanARMENIAN.Net - Sony Pictures and producer Neil Moritz have optioned remake rights to A Prophet, the French film released in the US in 2010, Deadline said.

Moritz and Toby Jaffe are producing through the Original Film banner. The Jacques Audiard-directed French film follows a young man’s rise to the top of a crime syndicate after he’s mentored by the boss. Pic was a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee in 2010 and won Grand Prize at Cannes and nine César Awards in France.

Moritz called the film “an epic crime saga with compelling characters and original storytelling. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to make an English-language version of the film and am grateful to have the trust of Jacques Audiard and his producers, as well as the writers Thomas Bidegain, Nicolas Peufaillit, and Abdel Raouf Dafri.”