‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ screenwriter Steven Zaillian is considering directing an American remake of the sci-fi mystery ‘Timecrimes,’ Collider is reporting. The scribe has said he owns the rights to the remake of the 2007 Spanish film. He added he plans on moving the action to the United States, but would retain the film’s original idea.

The original ‘Timecrimes,’ which was written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, follows a man who relives half an hour of his life three times. Zaillian said “The brilliance of that story is in the idea…It is such a big idea and a great idea that I’m not going to change that.” He added that he will co-write the remake, and “in terms of the big picture and big idea, it is going to be the same.”

The ‘Moneyball’ writer added that he thinks it will be a lot of fun working on the ‘Timecrimes’ remake. Zaillian added he would like to make it quickly and cheaply, because “I think that it is one of the few movies because of the way it was conceived you can do that and not sacrifice anything. It is four characters, two locations and it all takes place in real time in about an hour and a half.”

Written by: Karen Benardello