Film News Roundup: Jodie Foster to Direct, Star in Remake of Icelandic Thriller

In today’s film news roundup, Jodie Foster is remaking Iceland’s “Woman at War,” the Art Directors Guild honors production designers Anthony Masters and Ben Carre, “47 Meters Down: Uncaged” gets cast and Melissa Takal directs “New Year New You” for Hulu.Project AnnouncementJodie Foster will direct, co-produce and star in an English-language remake of the thriller “Woman at War,” Iceland’s submission to the Foreign Language competition at the upcoming 91st Academy Awards.The Icelandic movie centers on a music teacher who’s escalating her sabotage against the local aluminum industry when she discovers that her adoption application has been approved and a baby girl is awaiting her in the Ukraine.

The script won the best script prize in the Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival.Foster plans to relocate the setting to the American West.

It will be her fifth directorial gig following “Money Monster,

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