While he hasn’t made a film since 2007, Brian De Palma has not been resting on his laurels.  After countless projects came and went*, he finally seemed to snag some financing on a project early this year:  Passion, a remake of Alain Corneau’s Crime D’Amour.  After talking it up in various interviews over the summer, movement on the film seemed to slow.

Back in August, De Palma became attached to a higher-budgeted project called The Key Man, which has been described as an action thriller in vein of Three Days of the Condor and Marathon Man.  Production on The Key Man was projected to begin late this year or early next.  Well, it appears things aren’t moving along on that one quite as quickly as the producers had hoped.  In the meantime, De Palma has managed to get Passion going again.

The $20-million production is set to start on March 5th with Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams in the lead.  The plot revolves around a “woman who turns murderess when her boss steals her idea.”  Confirmed locations at this time include Berlin, Cologne, and London.  Most importantly, De Palma himself penned the adaptation.

“Not since ‘Dressed to Kill’ have I had a chance to combine eroticism, suspense, mystery and murder into one spell-binding cinematic experience. I can’t wait.”

And with those words from the man himself, I’m psyched as hell!  We all have directors whose work we love and within that group we have a select few whom we worship.  Brian De Palma falls into that latter category for me.  While his last two efforts have been interesting misfires, both Passion and The Key Man fall right in his wheelhouse.  These are the types of tales that the man spins best and I cannot wait to see both of them on the silver screen in the next couple years.

 

Source | Thompson On Hollywood

 

* – His adaptation of The Blue Afternoon has been abandoned and I severely doubt Capone will ever get made, at least with De Palma at the helm.  He has two other adaptations on the backburner (The Toyer, The Boston Stranglers), as well as a couple originals (Tabloid, Print The Legend) lying about.