Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) is attached to direct a remake of the Argentine thriller Carancho from a script by Aaron Stockard (The Town).  Imagine Entertainment is readying their pitch with producer Roy Lee (How to Train Your Dragon) to shop out the rights out to studios this week.

The original thriller (loosely translated Vulture) centers on “an ambulance-chasing personal injury attorney (Ricardo Darin) who straddles the line between helping unfortunate accident victims and exploiting them by skimming the proceeds for his employer.”  Carancho has been earning positive notices — as evidenced by the Fantastic Fest awards bestowed on director Pablo Trapero and star Martina Gusman — thus meriting its designation as Argentina’s official Oscar submission for 2010.  Hit the jump for the official synopsis and trailer.

Stone, Ong Bak 3, and the remake of I Spit on Your Grave are some of the films that have just been added to this year’s Fantastic Fest line-up.  We’ve received a press release announcing the inclusion of those films, along with 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Carancho, Drones, Fire of Conscience, Hatchet 2, The Housemaid (the original and the remake), Kidnapped, Legend of the Fist, Redline, Skate Land, Undocumented, and We Are What We Are.  Previously announced films include Buried and Let Me In.

Hit the jump for a brief synopsis for each of these films.  Fantastic Fest will run from September 23 – 30th in Austin, Texas.