Billy Ray, writer of State of Play and its fellow quality journalism drama Shattered Glass, has been tapped to write and direct an Americanized remake of 2009's Argentine Best Foreign Language Film winner The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos), an edgy crime thriller I am ashamed to admit I've never seen. I have to say this seems completely needless, and part of the latest Hollywood alternative to original ideas, remaking good movies for people who think subtitles are, like, totally gay. (Yes, Let Me In was surprisingly good, but I'm still not entirely convinced there was any reason it needed to be made) In contrast to the original's late '90s setting, Ray's remake will be set in the present, as well as in America, due to the relative lack of A-list Argentine-American actors.
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