Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal are in talks to star in Irish director Jim Sheridan's ‘Brothers’ for Relativity Media. The film is a remake of Susanne Bier's 2004 multi-award winning Danish-language war drama ‘Brodre’.
‘Brothers’ follows two brothers, the older an army officer, the younger an ex-convict, who must cope with changing roles when one is sent to war in Afghanistan and the other stays behind to look after his brother’s wife and child.
Bier's film starred Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas and among its awards won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
The remake, penned by David Benioff (Troy, 25th Hour), would star Gyllenhaal (Zodiac, Brokeback Mountain) as the younger brother and Maguire (Spider-Man trilogy, Cider House Rules) as the older one.
Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh is producing alongside Michael De Luca and Joni Sighvatsson.
Relativity most recently produced the Russell Crowe-Christian Bale starring Western ‘3:10 to Yuma,’ which recently debuted at No. 1 in the US Box Office.
‘Brothers’ is set to begin shooting in early November.
