Anthony Hopkins and Glen Powell (Top Gun: nonconformist) will play Dady Brieva and Peter Lanzani in the Hollywood remake of 4×4by the Argentine Mariano Cohn, which will be entitled blocked (Blocked would be the literal translation), and will produce none other than Sam Raimi, director of the first trilogy of Spidermanand of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
The film which released on 4/4/2019 centers around a thief who breaks into a super modern SUV and gets trapped in the car. External communication is only with the owner of the vehicle. It remains to be defined who will take on the role played by Luis Brandoni, the already retired mediator, who collaborates with the forces of order on the spot.
We spoke to Mariano Cohn to find out all about this Hollywood project.
-When did the negotiation start?
-It was almost a year ago, but they weren’t clear about the cast yet. Yes, there was a producer interested, who loved the film. We started talking, they made an adaptation and a few days ago they confirmed that the cast had been shut down.
– You talked, I assume, with Sam Raimi.
-Yes, with Gastón Duprat (Cohn’s partner and co-author of the screenplay of 4×4) we had talked to the producers, San Raimi among them.
And it’s not the first remake
-They had already done a remake in Brazil.
Yes, and in India too.
-Do you see Glen Powell in the Boca shirt, like Peter had it?
-The rights should be worked out, Boca fans kill me, they already wanted to kill me when we released it here, I almost had to go into exile, hahaha.
The actions will move from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles, and both Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat will travel there when shooting begins. “It will be in the middle of the year, early second semester,” Cohn says. The way is to release it in the course of 2024.
-You and Gastón Duprat are listed as executive producers. What does it mean?
-That we have participated in various instances, from the moment the idea of making the remake was born, advising us when writing the new screenplay, adapting and collaborating on the film.
-Have you talked to Glen Powell?
-No not yet. We have a Zoom with him scheduled for next week. When the possibility arose of Hopkins and Powell taking on the lead roles, we did several Zooms with Anthony. Like we always do, like we did with (Robert) De Niro for the series Nothing (which will premiere in the second half of this year on Star+).
They’re sharp, very old-school actors who want to talk about the script. The director of the remake also got involved, and it all has to do with executive producing.
-What is left of the interview with Anthony Hopkins?
-Hopkins had already seen official race, which he loved. When we spoke, she told us she liked what Antonio Banderas was like (they were castmates in The mask of Zorro -1998-). “I have never seen Antonio so well as in your film. I thought he was very cutting edge, very creative,” he told us.
“Anthony knew that we had shot with De Niro -continues Cohn-, and he told us ‘I’m interested in going to shoot in Buenos Aires’, but it’s not this project. Can you imagine the second part of Nada, with Anthony Hopkins?”, the director dreams and laughs.
Has the script changed much?
-And, there are differences, it has been updated. The film is super-adapted, the screenplay is more anabolic, more muscular, more Hollywood, a little more technological with the vehicle, with the features of the car. It’s been four years…
-How did the sale of screenplay rights go?
-The rights options were only for six months, short options, because the film had many stakeholders. We and Gastón are signed by CAA, our agency in the United States, and they, in addition to offering you work or obtaining resources to make series or films, also represent the remake rights. And that was a proposition that came to them, and they started bringing the parties together.
-Did you know David Yarovesky, who will direct the remake?
-I saw a movie you made on Netflix, stories at nightfall (Nightbooks), a horror film for children, produced by Sam Raimi, but he is a genre director.
Instead, it emerged that there was a meeting on the outskirts of Milan, which was attended by the Argentines together with Sam Raimi and Luca Guadagnino, the director of call me by your namewinner this year of the Silver Lion in Venice as best director for down to the bone). The award was presented to him by Mariano Cohn, who was a member of the Jury of the Exhibition.
The meeting would have been in the villa that the Italian has there, on the outskirts of Milan, and we began thinking about a new project: a spin-off of a superhero, to make a series together, between Sam Raimi, Cohn and Duprat.
Source: Clarin
