Screen Daily is reporting today that he is preparing to shoot a remake of Jorge Grau’s cannibal tale We Are What We Are. Shooting is expected to begin this June for Memento Films.
Production begins this June and Grau has given the film his blessing.
Mickle is relocating the events of the film from Mexico City to the “poor” region of New York state’s Catskills. He’s reuniting with Stake Land‘s Nick Damici to pen the script.
In the original film, a cannibal family is forced to fend for itself when the patriarch dies. Grau told Screen Daily:
“I feel fortunate to have someone with the vision and talent Jim has to re-interpret my work. It is extraordinary to have a team of filmmakers so respectful of the spirit of a film and take such good care of its essence. Im so proud to know We Are What We Are will be reworked under that kind of intelligent frame of mind. Very happy that Jim will construct a new universe over the bases of mine.”
More as it comes in.
