Mickey Rourke in Mona Lisa Remake

Apparently tired of digging into forgotten (and some not so forgotten) ’80s horror dumpster, Hollywood producers have now turned their attention towards Britain’s dumpsters, and they’ve come up with 1986’s “Mona Smile”. The film originally starred Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson, and was directed by Neil Jordan of “Crying Game” fame. The remake will star Mickey Rourke in the Hoskins role, playing an ex-con who gets a job driving a high-priced call girl (Eva Green in the remake); the two eventually become friends and run afoul of a local kingpin.

Variety says Larry Clark (of “Kids” and “Ken Park” infamy) will write and direct the remake, so you should probably expect more than a little skin from ex-Bond girl Eva Green or Larry Clark isn’t doing his job. Then again, it’s not like Green is new to nudity. Her first movie was “The Dreamers”, an NC-17 affair. Hopefully they’ll make Rourke keep his clothes on, because come on, no one wants to see that.

Filming on the remake is set to begin in July in New York.

Below: High-priced, huh? How much are we talking about, exactly?