Wes Anderson is set to write My Best Friend, a remake of the 2006 Patrice Leconte-directed French comedy Mon meilleur ami. Anderson is also eyeing the project as a directing vehicle.
The French film starred Daniel Auteuil as a cranky antiques dealer who learns at a dinner with his closest acquaintances that none of them really like him because of his harsh manner and selfishness. When his business partner bets him a valuable vase that he can't produce a best friend, the dealer tries to get an amiable cab driver to pose as his buddy.
This seems a bit like an odd choice for Anderson as all of his other scripts have been entirely original. Then again, he did just do an adaptation (The Fantastic Mr. Fox) so maybe this will be the project that knocks him out of that creative repetition he has been in since, oh, Bottle Rocket.
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I think he'd do well with a story like this.
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