Sony Pictures has revealed that it plans to produce an English-language remake of French director Jacques Audiard's crime drama A Prophet (2009). The remake will be produced by Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe, but further details are unknown at the moment.
Audiard's film tells the story of a young Frenchman of Arab descent who becomes a fearless crime lord while serving a prison sentence. It stars Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, and Adel Bencherif. In 2009, A Prophet won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
Note: A Prophet is already available on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom and the United States. See our listings and reviews of these releases here and here. Included below is the original trailer for the film.