The great Tim Roth has lined up his next project... assuming Inglorious Bastards never happens. He'll star opposite Naomi Watts in the drama Funny Games, for director Michael Haneke.
Variety says the film casts Roth as a father trying to protect his family from two psychos who invade their cabin during a vacation. It sounds like a hillbilly horror thriller, but it's being labeled as a drama. Drama or thriller, Roth versus hillbillies is good.
What's really odd about this project is that if IMDB is to believed, Haneke is remaking his own movie. In 1997 he directed a German movie called Funny Games, with the same plot and a different cast. In that movie two hillbillies take a family hostage and make them play sadistic games with each other, because of course hillbillies do love incest.
Roth was last seen in 2005's Dark Water, so it's about time he got back to work. The next place he'll show up is in the 2007 movie Guilty Pleasures with Hayden Christensen.
