Chris Rock has reason to celebrate today! Deadline reports that Rock will develop and direct an English-language remake of Another Round, the 2020 Thomas Vinterberg dramedy that starred Mads Mikkelsen and won Best International Feature award at the Oscars.
The original Another Round starred Mikkelsen as one of four high school teachers who engage in a social experiment to be inebriated all day every day. Why? So they’ll be more creative and energetic for their students. But the plan doesn’t go nearly as planned, affecting their professional and personal lives.
Leonardo DiCaprio is among the producers through his Appian Way label.
Rock will direct and co-write the script, rewriting the first draft by Stuart Bloomberg. This will be Rock’s first time behind the camera since 2014’s critically acclaimed Top Five. He also directed Head of State in 2003, and I Think I Love My Wife in 2007.
Don’t be fooled; Rock is a serious filmmaker and has made directing his priority. He’s also developing an adaptation of Jonathan Eig’s novel King: A Life about Martin Luther King, Jr. There’s also an untitled screenplay that Rock is writing but it’s unclear what that project is at this time.
