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R E M A K E  Recently a friend and critic who recently watched FUNNY GAMES US said to me "now the film is where it belongs."  He is right. When I first envisioned FUNNY GAMES in the middle of the 90s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie.  It is a reaction to a certain American Cinema, its violence, its naiveté, the way American Cinema toys with human beings. In many American films violence is made consumable.

However, because it was a foreign language film and because the actors were not familiar to a US audience, it did not reach its audience. In 2005, a British producer approached me with the idea to do a remake in English. I agreed under the condition that Naomi Watts star in the movie.