Diaz,Firth in Coen bros Gambit remake

Firth,a frontrunner for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in ‘The King’s Speech’,was previously attached to ‘Gambit’.

Michael Hoffman (The Last Station) is directing the remake. Mike Lobbell is producing alongside Ripp and Paris. Shooting will begin in London in May,the Hollywood Reporter said.

The film is about a London art curator (Firth) who plots an elaborate scheme to con a wealthy collector into buying a fake Monet painting. As part of the ruse,he recruits a Texas steer roper (Diaz) to play the part of a woman whose grandfather liberated the painting at the end of World War II.