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Variety reports that preternaturally hacky director Brett Ratner may have found a follow-up project to his upcoming Rush Hour 3 sequel shoot, signing on to randomly point a camera at things on the set (props, the craft services table, and, occasionally, actors reciting their lines) of a remake of The Boys From Brazil, the 1978 thriller about a plot to clone Hitler and resurrect the Third Reich. Ratner briefly explains his interest in the project:

"The original was a flawed film with a brilliant concept," Ratner said. "You no longer have to spend time explaining cloning as you did then."

Since fauxteur contemporaries like Michael Bay have already done the heavy lifting of pseudoscientific exposition and the shallow exploration of the philosophical issues related to cloning, Ratner is free to concentrate on applying his gifts to putting his stamp on the genre. Released of these talky, inherently uncinematic burdens, his creative energy will be focussed on making his version's pivotal scene, in which a thickly accented Dr. Mengele and his fast-talking sidekick are chased by police jeeps through the impressively exploding Brazilian jungle as they bicker over whose turn it is to change the formaldehyde in the jar containing Hitler's brain once they get back to their secret lab, as eye-poppingly incomprehensible as it can possibly be.