A New Rashomon Remake Announced

Los Angeles based company Harbor Light Entertainment has picked up the rights to remake Akira Kurosawa’s classic film Rashomon. Harbor Light plans to recreate the film as a contemporary thriller under the title Rashomon: Where Truth Lies.

The original Japanese film told the story of a murder and rape from the perspective of four people: the woman who was raped, the accused rapist-killer, a witness, and the spirit of the murdered man. The film won America’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1951.

Rashomon has been remade twice before, first as an American television adaptation in 1960 starring Ricardo Montalban, the second feature, a 1964 film version titled The Outrage, shot as a western starring Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, and William Shatner.

Source: Cinescape