Taylor Hackford knows The Woman Next Door

Though he helped steer Jamie Foxx to an Oscar with Ray, Taylor Hackford is still not the director we’d expect to be handed a Francois Truffaut remake.

Still, New Line seems to think he can do justice to a US version of La Femme d’a Cote (or, to translate, The Woman Next Door). And the studio has hired a quality writer to make sure the script’s up to snuff (The Wicker Man notwithstanding), as Neil LaBute will provide the words.

"This is a lesser-known Truffaut film about ex-lovers, long separated, who suddenly find themselves living next door to each other," LaBute gassed to Variety. "Each is married. Neither tells their spouse they know each other, and it's a collision course into disaster as they rekindle a volatile relationship, with great passion and suspense. Taylor said if he was ever going to remake a movie, this was the one he could do something with."