The Weinstein Co. acquired the worldwide rights to the live-action film adaptation of Yasuomi Umetsu's anime Kite at this week's Festival de Cannes. Samuel L. Jackson is starring in the film with lead actress India Eisley ( The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Underworld: Awakening, Maleficent ) and Callan McAuliffe ( I Am Number Four, New Director ).

South African director Ralph Ziman (Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema) directed the film after the passing of director David R. Ellis. The film was in pre-production in Johannesburg when Ellis passed away.

According to Deadline, the Kite remake is "a character-driven action film that charts the story of Sawa (Eisley), a young woman living in a failed state after the financial collapse, where a corrupt security force profits on the trafficking of young women. When Sawa's policeman father is killed, she vows to track the murderer down with the help of his ex-partner, Karl Aker (Jackson)."