Netflix Swoops on ‘Perfect Strangers’ Adaptation as Its First Arab Original Film

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Netflix will release its first ever original film in Arabic next month, a remake of the Italian hit movie “Perfect Strangers.” “Perfect Strangers,” the 2016 film from director Paolo Genevese, has been remade 18 times across countries such as France, Spain, South Korea, Germany, Greece and more, making it the most remade film ever. Now, the Arabic version will gather up a cast of Pan-Arab talent, as led by Lebanese director and actor Nadine Labaki (“Capernaum”) and Egyptian star Mona Zaki.

Netflix has boarded the upcoming Arabic-language version of hit movie property Perfect Strangers, which becomes the streamer’s first Arabic-language Original movie.

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Dubai-based Front Row Filmed Entertainment has set writer/director duo Amr El Daly and Jad Aouad to develop an Arabic adaptation of global box office hit Intouchables. Front Row acquired the Arabic remake rights to the original French title which released in 2011 and made $427M worldwide. It was later notably adapted in a 2019 U.S. version, The Upside, starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart and Nicole Kidman.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentProminent Dubai-based distribution and production outfit Front Row is going forward on its Arabic remake of French hit comedy “Intouchables,” with a writer and director team now attached and plans to start shooting in Egypt in May 2022.For the task of adapting the French original about a grumpy white paraplegic billionaire who strikes a friendship with his street-smart Black ex-con caretaker, Front Row has recruited Egyptian screenwriter Amr El Daly

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