If there is one movie that didn’t need a remake, it’s Juan José Campanella‘s Oscar winning "Secret In Their Eyes." And yet, one can’t deny that the combo of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts, along with "Shattered Glass" writer/director Billy Ray is a compelling one. But the question still lingers of why this story needed to be retold, and what could be improved.
“I felt that as great as that movie is, and I literally mean great, I felt that it needed to be made into a slightly more muscular version of itself, and that just meant it needed a little bit more story and a couple of things I thought were sort of uniquely American touches to justify retelling the story,” Ray told EW. “I’m pretty confident we found all that.”
Whether or not it works, you can see for yourself in the first trailer. The story has been tweaked and now on a team of FBI investigators haunted by an unsolved case. Here’s the official synopsis:
"Secret In Their Eyes" opens on October 23rd. Does this look like a potential awards contender to you? Watch below.
