Wes Anderson is teaming up with Image Entertainment and Universal Pictures to write a “My Best Friend,” a remake of Patrice Leconte‘s “Mon Meilleur Ami,” a French comedy from 2006. Variety says Anderson is writing the film with an eye towards directing it as well. We’ve never seen it to be honest (but we do remember the trailer in theaters), but it strikes us odd that Anderson would re-do someone else’s story when he’s got seemingly so many of his own to tell. Then again, he did just do an adaptation (“The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” with writing pal Noah Baumbach) and the director is still on of a creative down-turn in our minds that he hasn’t fully recovered from.
Maybe he should do a one-act about Watergate or set a story in the Outback to get his creative juices flowing again. Either way, Ron Howard’s longtime producing partner Brian Grazer, is a co-producer here and it’s Anderson first partnership with Imagine Ent.
The Variety synopsis:
The French pic starred Daniel Auteuil as a cranky antiques dealer who learns at a dinner with his closest acquaintances that none of them really like him because of his harsh manner and selfishness. When his business partner bets him a valuable vase that he can’t produce a best friend, the dealer tries to get an amiable cab driver to pose as his buddy.
Also note, the trade says that Anderson is apparently completed work on ‘Fox.’ Maybe we’ll see a release date on that one too (or does that mean, there’s still animation work to be done?)