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Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment has set Wes Anderson to write "My Best Friend," a remake of the 2006 Patrice Leconte-directed French comedy "Mon meilleur ami." Anderson is also eying the project as a directing vehicle.

Brian Grazer and Agnes Mentre will produce. Rosalie Swedlin will be executive producer.

The French pic 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.

Pic marks Anderson�s first collaboration with Imagine, which releases the Ron Howard-directed "Frost/Nixon" on Dec. 5 and the Clint Eastwood-directed "Changeling" on Oct. 24 through Universal and "Angels & Demons" on May 15 through Sony.

Anderson just completed directing an animated adaptation of Roald Dahl novel "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" with 20th Century Fox Animation.

UTA reps Anderson and sold remake rights on the film to Universal.