![]() While Nguyen will be an executive producer and involved in the creative process of the new film, it was important to him that the director and screenwriter be African American. The connection led Nguyen to approach his producer, Timothy Linh Bui with the idea to make an American adaptation. Merciless overseers systematically beat and tortured workers-many of them to death.” Dysentery, malaria, malnutrition, and back-breaking labor were rife. Like slaves, thousands of Vietnamese men and women worked at the French rubber plantations under debilitating and inhuman conditions. When it was first released, Nguyen told Saigoneer that “the film was inspired by the life of my grandmother, who was a housemaid during the French colonial period in Vietnam.”Īs for the remake, Nguyen tells Saigoneer via email that “when I was doing research on the Vietnamese version of the script for The Housemaid, I started to realize that there were many similarities with plantation life between the indentured servants in Vietnam during the French colonial days and African American slaves in the American South. While it contains elements familiar to many blockbuster scare flicks, one thing that sets the film apart is its incorporation of historical elements and racial dynamics. Jean-Michel Richaud (left) plays Captain Sebastian Laurent with Linh, the titular housemaid, played by Nhung Kate (right). When she falls in love with the plantation’s French owner, the ghost of his deceased wife returns to wreak havoc. The original movie’s plot centered around an orphaned girl who is hired to work on a haunted French rubber plantation. The remake will take the action from its original setting in French Colonial Vietnam and recast it in the American Deep South during post-Civil War Reconstruction, reports Deadline. Geoffrey Fletcher, whose screenplay for the Lee Daniels-directed movie Precious won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2010, will adopt Vietnam's 2016 horror flick Co Hau Gai (The Housemaid).Ĭo Hau Gai, Vietnam’s top-grossing horror movie, was written and directed by Vietnamese-American Derek Nguyen.
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