MUMBAI: Japan-based producer-distributor Kadokawa Pictures is making a remake of the 1958 thriller Elevator To The Gallows.
The project marks the first ever reworking of a French classic by a Japanese production house and also the first remake of the film that starred Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet.
The film directed by Akira Ogata stars Tetsuji Tamayama, Keiko Kitagawa.
The shooting of the film will be rounded off by the end of October and the film is slated for a fall 2010 release.
Kadokawa Pictures‘ parent company Kadokawa Holdings also announced two corporate consolidations.
Kadokawa Pictures will absorb the DVD releasing subsidiary Kadokawa Entertainment on November 1.
Kadokawa will release Astro Boy on 10 October and one of its production The Sun That Doesn‘t Set, that stars Ken Watanabe on 24 October 24.
