Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong

Ron Howard plans to direct a remake of Michael Hanecke's Caché (Hidden).

Christ on a bicycle. At least when Hollywood remade Infernal Affairs they had a high-calibre director with Scorcese so there was a chance that it might turn out to be good (but, sadly, we got Scorcese-by-numbers, a poor man's Goodfellas). But Ron Howard, America's blandest and most inoffensive filmmaker, taking on Hanecke's masterfully suspenseful and dark Caché? No, no, no. We'll end up with an utterly forgetable and sanitised thriller stripped of the original's complex and ambiguous heart.

Hollywood is already in the process of adapting Hanecke's Funny Games. I wonder who will direct that one? Brett Ratner?