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’13 Tzameti’ Remake Now Has A Pretty Killer Cast

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:02:00 +0000

Ok, so 50 Cent is the weak link, and Statham can be an action dunder-head, but damn, this cast is pretty impressive otherwise.

Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, Jason Statham, Sam Riley (he played Joy Division’s Ian Curtis in “Control”), 50 Cent and Ray Liotta will star in “13,” the English-language remake of the 2005 French flick “13 Tzameti.” Good cast, we’ll keep an eye on that one. The original is in our Netflix queue cause we missed it the first go-round.

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50 Cent Adds Up For French Remake, ’13’

M. P. — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:06:00 +0000

“Rapper?” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Jason Statham, and Mickey Rourke have joined Sam Riley (“Control”) in “13,” the upcoming remake of Gela Babluani’s own original French film, “13 Tzameti.”

The film, written and directed by Babluani, is about a young man (Riley) who steals a dead man’s identity and gets caught up in an underground world of violence, power, and chance , in order to get rich (or die trying?). Paramount Vantage is producing the film which will shoot come mid november in New York City.

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