Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorNEON, StudioCanal, and Blueprint Pictures are co-developing the narrative remake of lauded documentary The Painter and the Thief from Benjamin Ree.NEON held a bidding war for the project, which StudioCanal and Blueprint won.
NEON had acquired remake rights along with the documentary following its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won for Creative Storytelling.The Painter and the Thief follows a Czech artist who, desperate for answers about the theft of her two paintings, seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them.It has gone on to earn multiple awards across the festival circuit, most recently taking the “Best Documentary Feature” award out of the.
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