Like any good kidnapping scheme, Lorber Films are planning ahead. Lorber have announced the pick-up of a 2009 Rotterdam preemed thriller which was picking up dust. Lucas Belvaux’s Rapt will receive a middle of summer 2011 release on July 12th. This stars the overrated Yvan Attal, and underrated Anne Consigny.
Gist: Inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French French industrialist Édouard-Jean Empain (read wiki entry), this is about a rich businessman (played by Attal) is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate his ransom. During the ordeal, much of Graff’s hidden dealings and love affairs come to the surface, forcing his family to question his loyalty. No this is not some recent plot line from the South Americas.
Worth Noting: Lucas Belvaux is most famous for his 2002 trilogy: After the Life, An Amazing Couple and On the Run which consisted of interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre.
Do We Care?: We admit to be mildly interested in the pic, but perhaps more curious about who picked up the remake rights in Smuggler Films — producer on mostly indie film productions such as You Can Count on Me, Revolutionary Road and Boys Don’t Cry.
