Jessica Alba in talks for The Eye remake!
According to Variety, Lionsgate is picking up Cruise/Wagner-produced remake The Eye and is in talks with one of favourite Hollywood celebrity Jessica Alba to star. The movie will be directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud and the shooting will start this winter.
Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner persuaded Paramount to buy the remake rights in 2002 and got close to making it there with Renée Zellweger till she dropped out.
Hollywood remake of Asian horror film, The Eye is a thriller about “a cornea transplant recipient who sees disturbing images in the mirror that send her on a quest to find out what happened to the eye’s previous owner.” The original thriller was made in Hong Kong directed by Thai brothers Danny and Oxide Pang.
February 8th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
[…] According to the reports, as it was rumored the Hollywood actress Jessica Alba has signed a $4 million deal with Cruise’s production company for a new horror movie remake, called The Eye. The movie will be a Hollywood remake of the Hong Kong film Jian Gui in which a blind violinist, Allison played by Jessica Alba, starts seeing ghosts after receiving an eye transplant. The movie, which will be produced by Tom Cruise, will be filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is set to be released in 2008. Jessica Alba is working on Sin City and Fantastic Four sequels this year but also has been focused on rehearsing for her role as a blind violinist in her upcoming film “The Eye”. I’ve been training. I wear a sleep mask and carry a cane to get around with. I’ve also been practicing the violin - it’s hard! It took me three months to figure it out! - Contactmusic.com quoted Jessica Alba as saying - […]