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The cell phone rings, you don’t recognize the number, but you do know the voice; it’s your own, and you are being murdered. That’s the premise behind French filmmaker Eric Valette’s remake of Takashi Miike’s 2003 Japanese horror film “Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call)”.
Indie vets Shannyn Sossaman (The Rules of Attraction) and Ed Burns (The Groomsmen} have signed on to star in the film about a college student (Sossaman) whose friends begin receiving mysterious cell phone messages from themselves in the future in which they hear themselves being murdered. When she receives one of the mysterious calls, the coed has but three days to solve the mystery and save herself. Burns plays a detective she enlists to help her.
The original film was a hit in Japan and the Philippines and Andrew Klavan’s (Don’t Say a Word (2001)) adaptation of the screenplay is expected to hold true to the original premise and follow the lead of The Ring, and The Grudge, other Japanese based horror films that have found commercial success in the states. With the recent resurgence of interest in horror genre films, the producers are looking to capitalize on the countries escapist instinct and the skill and lessons taught by the great masters of Japanese horror.
With the horrors facing us daily on the television news, it would seem that audiences would be seeking more to escape into fantasy than terror. However, the horror genre offers us the chance to face our terror with the ultimate safety, and the ultimate out, we get to go home.
The film has been backed by Intermedia and Kadakowa USA, will be filmed in Atlanta, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
