Steve Pink is in on the con. MGM has hired the writer-director to script a remake of "
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." Robert Simonds is producing. Becky Sloviter and Cale Boyter are overseeing for the studio.
The original "Scoundrels," released in 1988 and directed by Frank Oz, was itself a remake of the 1964 film "Bedtime Story," which starred Marlon Brando and David Niven. "Scoundrels" starred Steve Martin in the Brando role and Michael Caine in the Niven role as mirror-opposite conmen competing to scam money from a seemingly guileless American woman and banish each other from their South of France hunting ground, Beaumont-sur-Mer. The comedy also was spun into a Broadway musical in 2005 that starred Tony-winning actor John Lithgow.