German Oscar contender Toni Erdmann is getting an American remake, courtesy of Kristen Wiig and Jack Nicholson, and now A Man Called Ove, the bestselling Swedish book adapted last year by Hannes Holm (and nominated for two Academy Awards), is getting remade courtesy of one Tom Hanks.
American adaptations of successful foreign films will never go out of style (though it’s always a crapshoot as to whether they’ll actually be any good or not).
Hanks will both produce and star in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Fredrik Backman’s 2012 bestseller is about a cantankerous old man whose attempts at suicide keep getting thwarted by chance and bad luck.