Black to the Future

Jack Black will remake the likes of 'Rush Hour', 'Robocop' and 'BTTF' in Michel Gondry's new film.

May  2 2006

In a meeting of two mammoth creative minds, Jack Black is to team up with Michel Gondry for the forthcoming high concept comedy 'Be Kind Rewind'.

Gondry will direct the pic, which revolves around a junkyard worker whose magnetized brain ends up destroying all the films in his friend's video store.

The pair then re-shoot the likes of 'Rush Hour', 'Robocop' and 'Back to the Future', before the store's only regular customer, an elderly lady with signs of dementia, rents them out.

Producer Georges Bermann, who first discussed the project with Gondry last November, said it wasn't long before the pieces fell into place. 'Michel is a super-fast writer,' he explains. 'He handed in a draft in three weeks. Focus [Features] was interested the second they heard the pitch and made the deal within a week.'

Gondry's next film, 'The Science of Sleep', will hit UK screens on July 28, while Black's 'Nacho Libre' is out on August 11.

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