Mark Wahlberg, Marion Cotillard, and Zoe Saldana may star in French actor Guillaume Canet's English-language directorial debut, Blood Ties.  According to The Playlist, the film is a remake of 2008's Les Liens Du Sang, which Canet starred in but did not direct.  The story is set in the 1970s and centers on "two brothers, one a cop, the other a criminal fresh out of the joint."  Wahlberg's The Yards and We Own the Night writer-director James Gray is working on the script with Canet, and now Screen Daily reports that Wahlberg is circling the role of the cop (for those keeping track, this would be the fifth time Wahlberg has played a cop.  There's no word yet on whom Cotillard (who is also Canet's partner) or Saldana would play, and Canet may co-star as well.

Canet is probably best known to American audiences for his 2006 thriller Tell No One (Ben Affleck is set to direct the US remake), but he's also directed the Cesar-nominated Mon Idole and Little White Lies.  Gray's next film, a period drama tentatively titled Low Life and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, and Cotillard is set to start shooting in January.  Hit the jump to check out a trailer for Les Liens Du Sang.