By AFP
Story Created: Jul 29, 2009 at 10:10 PM

Russell Crowe is to star in a Hollywood remake of the French thriller "Pour
Elle," entertainment industry Daily Variety reported on its website.

Crowe, 45, the Oscar-winning star of "Gladiator" and "A Beautiful Mind," will
play a teacher trying to free his wife from prison after she is wrongly
convicted of murder.

The film -- to be released as "The Next Three Days" -- will be shot by Paul
Haggis, a best director Oscar-winner in 2006 for "Crash."

Haggis, 56, told Variety that Crowe had been chosen for the part for his
"everyman" qualities.

"We've seen him as the gladiator, but he has embodied the Everyman in so many
pictures," Haggis said, describing the movie as an exploration of faith and
belief.

"The deeper theme here is, would you save the woman you loved if you knew that
by doing so, you would turn into a man that woman could no longer love?"

Crowe, who was most recently seen in political thriller "State of Play," is
currently working on the Ridley Scott-directed "Robin Hood."


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