producer Stephen Woolley (Carol, On Chesil Beach) is developing a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic Ikiru.
The news comes from a foreword in Woolley’s new book Scala Cinema: 1978 to 1993, where he writers “I’m reading a screenplay today for a version of [Ikiru] I commissioned that will be set in 1950s London, and which I hope to shoot next year.
Parly inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ikiru follows a middle-aged bureaucrat searching for meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Woolley’s latest film Colette, starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West and Eleanor Tomlinson, received a limited release in the U.S. this past weekend and will screen at the London Film Festival next month ahead of a UK release in January 2019.
Via Deadline
