Spielberg Picks Up Japanese Film ‘Like Father, Like Son’

Steven Spielberg’s production company, Dreamworks, has set about acquiring the movie rights to Japanese drama LIKE FATHER LIKE SON, after the Director saw the film at the Cannes. The studio is in negotiations with Fuji TV to remake director Hirozaku Kore-Eda’s Palme d’Or nominated feature.

It’s not unusual to see Spielberg buying rights to almost anything and everything but there’s certainly an intrigue to the idea of him directing this one, despite Dreamworks officials denying that he might take on that role. While an intriguing film for Spielberg to take on, it may have result in some protest given the quite negative reaction to speculation he would be remaking Chan Wook-Park’s South Korean thriller OLDBOY.

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON tells the story of an overly ambitions couple who discover that through a accident at the hospital, that they’ve raised a child that isn’t his own. Things take a turn after the couple finds out that their biological son is being raised by a less successful family and attempts to take him back.

Here’s your official synopsis:

Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life and living as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not their son – the hospital gave them the wrong baby.

Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between “nature” and “nurture”. In the meanwhile, seeing Midori’s devotion to Keita even after learning his origin, and communicating with the rough yet caring family who raised his blood son for the last six years, Ryota also starts to question himself: has he really been a “father” all these years?

We’ll bring you all the news of LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON as soon we hear it!

Source: Deadline