After a decade’s worth of maligned coming-of-age portraits (gutter ball films if you ask me), Larry Clark is looking to re-configure a British cult classic from the 80’s that didn’t make big waves in the U.S. In need of a career resuscitation (Does anyone remember Jumper? and did anyone see Virgin Territory or Awake?), Screen Daily reports that Hayden Christensen is being courted to topline the re-imagining of Mona Lisa with Clark very much looking forward to directing the pic.
Co-written by Clark and David Reeves, this is a remake of the 1986 film directed by Neil Jordan, about a small-time chauffeur who delves into the London underbelly with a high-class call girl. Christensen will take on a younger version of George.
The $8m dollar pic is set to shoot in New York from March 2009. HandMade’ Michael Ryan told the trade that “Clark had been pursuing the remake for several years — Larry wanted it to be about this underbelly of New York.”
