Chris Rock appears to be some kind of closet indie/foreign film enthusiast because he keeps intermittently surprising us with totally left-field news. There’s his penchant for French films, which led to “I Think I Love My Wife,” based on the late Eric Rohmer’s “Love In The Afternoon,” and his interest in remaking “Le premiere etoile,” a French box office hit from last year. Not to mention the totally bizarro world news that he would be scribing a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “High & Low” for Mike Nichols.
Well in that vein, the actor/comedian has joined Julie Delpy’s upcoming “2 Days In New York,” a sequel to her 2007 romantic dramedy, “2 Days In Paris.” As we revealed back in February, the film will find Delpy reprising her role as Marion from the first film, now with a new lover and a child. It was noted back then that Adam Goldberg would not be reprising his role but that a well-known American actor would play the new male lead. Could Chris Rock be filling that slot?
It remains to be seen, but it’s definitely some interesting casting and probably one of the better project choices Rock has made in years (seriously, he should’ve fired whoever convinced him to play an unfunny, emasculated version of himself in “Grown Ups”).
Production on the film will begin October. [Production Weekly]