Not Just Another Love Movie

A lot of quality directors such as Marc Webb are coming straight out of the world of music videos, which are kind of a form of visual storytelling, making the transition easier. Marc Webb’s first feature length film, 500 Days of Summer, which felt like the abridged and cluttered memory of a summer romance, was one of 2009’s breakout hits, and one of his next films (via The Hollywood Reporter) will be a remake of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival’s breakout hit, Just Another Love Story.

You might think that Hollywood isn’t giving these remakes a lot of time anymore, but the original was actually a Danish thriller directed by Ole Bornedal, continuing the recent trend of foreign language remakes (I guess that Hollywood thinks that we need to feel like everything is tailored specifically for us). The Danish version is about a crime photographer who pretends to be the boyfriend of a woman with amnesia; he’s apparently in for a lot of pain when the real boyfriend finds out. There is also talk of Webb directing the films Jesus Christ Superstar and the dystopian thriller Age of Rage, which gives him options on his next project.

Just Another Love Story