Smuggler Films has acquired the rights to remake the 2009 French thriller film “Rapt,” which was about the 1978 kidnapping of French CEO and heir to the Empain Schneider Dynasty, Baron Edouard-Jean Empain.

Smuggler’s version is tentatively titled “Abduction.”

“Rapt” was released in France this past fall, and was nominated for a Cesar Award for best picture.

Smuggler’s Patrick Milling Smith says – “‘Rapt’ is a high stakes thriller propelled by multiple agendas that could not be more timely. It has it all: kidnapping, mistresses, the avarice of corporate culture and the tabloid exposure of a family living a lie. Lucas Belvaux’s original is a film that does not take the easy route with any of its narratives and unflinchingly honest characters and we are left the richer for that.”

The kidnapping of Empain, orchestrated by a man called Georges Bertoncini, is probably best remembered for the kidnappers amputating one of Empain’s fingers to provide proof against his ransom.

Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “Rapt”.

By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)