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‘Sleuth’ to put Caine-Law to Wits
What do you do if you find out your wife is having an affair? Why ask the bloke over for dinner of course. That’s the premise for the remake of the 1972 Academy Award® nominated Sleuth set for release in 2007. Michael Caine is on board for this reprise, but this time he plays thriller-writer Adam Wyke, the scorned husband and socialite who concocts a scheme to get revenge on his wife’s hairdresser (Jude Law), with whom she’s having the affair. In the original film Caine played the lover. The ensuing chaos involves deceptions and counter-deceptions where each man tries to outwit the other.
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What do you do if you find out your wife is having an affair? Why ask the bloke over for dinner of course. That’s the premise for the remake of the 1972 Academy Award® nominated Sleuth set for release in 2007. Michael Caine is on board for this reprise, but this time he plays thriller-writer Adam Wyke, the scorned husband and socialite who concocts a scheme to get revenge on his wife’s hairdresser (Jude Law), with whom she’s having the affair. In the original film Caine played the lover. The ensuing chaos involves deceptions and counter-deceptions where each man tries to outwit the other.
The project will be co-produced by Law under his Riff Raff Productions banner with Tom Sternberg and Simon Halfont. Law came onto the project 3 years ago when financier Castle Rock first purchased rights to the play version. Kenneth Branagh will helm the picture when it begins filming in January at Twickenham Studios in London.
The original film brought Oscar nominations for Caine in 1972, as well as for his then co-star Sir Laurence Olivier. The films director, John Mankiewicz, also received an Oscar nomination for the original flick. The upcoming production will make a baker’s dozen in the chair for Branagh, whose previous ventures include numerous film noir Shakespearean exploits, and a take on the Mary Shelly classic “Frankenstein” (1994).
