Hideo Nakata
In 2003, the South African-based company Distant Horizon purchased the rights to "Don't Look Up", initially with Hideo Nakata to direct the film again. In 2007, "Variety" announced that Fruit Chan would direct this English-language remake of "Don't Look Up". The remake was shown at the 2009 Lund Fantastisk Film Festival in Sweden and was later released on DVD in the United States in 2010.