It was announced that Woolley is working on a remake of Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, but setting it in 50s-era London.
Carol producer Stephen Woolley is headed back to 1950s, and he’s taking an Akira Kurosawa classic with him.
The news was revealed in the forward to his new book, Scala Cinema: 1978 to 1993, as reported by Deadline.
Nearly 40 years on from that Scala screening, I’m reading a screenplay today for a version I commissioned that will be set in 1950s London, and which I hope to shoot next year,” Woolley explained.