Sony to remake hit French-Canadian film

Sony Pictures has acquired the remake rights to "Fathers and Guns," a hit French-Canadian motion picture that will be adapted, developed and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

According to an article on HollywoodReporter.com, "‘Guns' is an action-comedy about two cops, father and son, who can't stand each other. They are assigned to an investigation to infiltrate an outdoor adventure group-therapy camp for fathers and sons. . . . Denise Robert and Emile Gaudreault, producer and writer-director, respectively, of the original film, will also produce."

When released this past summer in Quebec as "De Pere en flic," it bowled over a number of Hollywood productions such as beating out the Sasha Baron Cohen comedy, "Bruno," and out-grossing other Hollywood films by more than a 50 percent margin.

The motion picture's success has made it the highest-grossing French-language film ever released in Quebec and Canada.

"‘Fathers and Guns' is a fantastically funny film, and we're excited to be part of the process of getting this story out to as many people as possible," said Kennedy in a statement. "We greatly admire the work that went into the movie, and recognize that it will be hard to replicate a creative team like Emile Gaudreault, Ian Lauzon, and Denise Robert. We just hope that we can make the English-language adaptation as entertaining and successful as the original has been in Quebec."

Rachel O'Connor will be the guiding force for Sony Pictures while Matt Jackson will oversee the pic for Kennedy/Marshall.

The HollywoodReporter.com article closes by stating, "‘Guns' marks one of the first projects Kennedy/Marshall have set up at Columbia/Sony since signing their first-look deal this past spring."