Setting up the 'law'

Rachid Bouchareb is moving ahead on "Bill's Law," an British-language pic according to Jose Giovanni's 1973 classic mental drama "Two Males aroundInch (Deux hommes dans la ville).Pic is created by Bouchareb and Jean Brehat via their U.S. shingle Taghit as well as their Paris-based outfit Tessalit Prods. Pathe reps the film in worldwide marketplaces.Forest Whitaker is mounted on topline like a Muslim ex-disadvantage on parole as (Daily Variety, August. 15).Jean Gabin and Alain Delon starred within the original film, which focuses on the friendship from a cool gangster and the parole officer.Bouchareb, who's penning the script together with his writing partner Olivier Lorelle, is transposing the experience from seventies France to modern-day America. Pic is going to be occur the suburbs in Arizona, close to the Mexican border, stated Brehat, adding the film will discuss American politics and anti-Arab paranoia.It's allocated at about E15 million ($19.8 million).Pre-production will beginning early in the year. Lensing is anticipated to start in October and November."Two Males aroundInch marks Bouchareb's followup to Sienna Burns starrer "As being a Lady," another pic searching in the relationship between Arabs and People in america.Tessalit Prods can also be behind Roschdy Zem's Oscar-nominated feature debut, "Omar Wiped out Me." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com