Gustavo Hernández and Ignacio Cucucovich’s Mother Superior, producer of Hernandez’s La Casa Muda and You Shall Not Sleep, has acquired Spanish-language remake rights to cult movie Big Bad Wolves, reports Variety.
The film was widely hyped upon release when Quentin Tarantino described at the Busan Festival in 2013 that it was the best film of the year.
Directed by Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, produced by United Channels Movies (UCM) and inspired in part, its directors maintained, by the movies of Tarantino himself and the Coen brothers, Big Bad Wolves turns on a vigilante cop out to snare the author of a series of brutal murders, a kind of Dirty Harry figure who’s dismissed from the police force when he hires two thugs to beat up a suspect.
But the father of the latest victim is prepared to go much further. When the main suspect in the killings – a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder – he abducts him and with the ex-cop’s aid subjects the nebbish suspect to every kind of appalling torture the directors could think up to wring the truth out of him.
“The lack of security in Hispano-America has become critical. You hear every day tragic cases of homicides, adductions, attacks, corruption. Sadly, we’re becoming accustomed to surviving this fatality,” Hernández commented to the site.
“The ambition to adapt a film like Big Bad Wolves comes from the context of the region where I live. It allows me to develop a cathartic story on injustice, as a citizen, father and cineaste,” Hernández added, saying that the reversion will be “agile, raw and visceral, making the audience part of the ethical decisions. responsibilities and consequences which the film’s protagonists will suffer because of their actions.”