Wednesday, November 05, 2008

X-Rays

Ray Winstone and Ray Liotta (pictured) have joined the cast of "13," an English-language remake of the 2005 French psychological thriller "13 Tzameti " according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Here's the story--a young man (Sam Riley) who stumbles into an underground competition where the wealthy gamble on human beings in a Russian Roulette-like competition.

Winstone will play a competitor who has been sprung from a mental institution to participate, while Liotta will play a cop on the trail of the illegal game.

The already cast Mickey Rourke plays a convict in a Mexican prison who is sold into the competition.

50 Cent is an employee assigned to escort Rourke's character.

Jason Statham plays a wealthy British man who bets on the competition and has a peculiar interest in one of the competitors.



Géla Babluani who wrote and directed the original flick, adapapted the new script and will direct the 2010 release which starts filming November 20th in New York City.

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