Benioff
Columbia acquired remake rights to the 2004 Danish film "Brothers" and set "Troy" scribe David Benioff to write an Americanized version of the drama.
Michael De Luca will produce with Joni Sighvatsson.
The Susanne Bier-directed original concerned two Danish brothers, one of whom is sent to fight in Afghanistan while his black sheep brother becomes caretaker to his wife and child.
The rights were optioned by Sighvatsson right after he saw the film. After viewing the film when it played at Sundance last year, De Luca and his production exec Zach Schiff Abrams tracked the rights to Sighvatsson.
Benioff, who most recently scripted the "X-Men" spinoff "Wolverine" for Fox, adapted "For Whom the Bell Tolls" at Warner Bros. and "Kite Runner" at DreamWorks, will set the drama in the U.S.
De Luca exec Abrams will be involved in a producing capacity.
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