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Here we go again! The latest film to get put through the remake ringer: Das Experiment. But at least this incarnation is getting a pretty interesting cast. Variety reports that Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood, and Cam Gigandet will star in The Experiment, Paul Scheuring's (Prison Break) take on the German psychological thriller.

For the uninitiated, Experiment focuses on a collection of ordinary guys who sign up for a research study. They must become a group of guards and prisoners to see what affects power and control can have on a man. Of course, those affects will be bad. Brody will be the de facto head of the prisoners, while Whitaker will play the guard who becomes corrupt with power. One can assume that the other two will fall in line on one of the two sides, although their roles aren't being shared at this time.

Man, I wonder if they'll get any pointers from Rider Strong? The Boy Meets World kid got all sick with power on Veronica Mars when Logan had to partake in this very experiment for class. But seriously -- with Brody and Whitaker at the front, this could be one sweetly dark flick. As for the Scheuring side, Prison Break never appealed to me so you wonderful readers will have to weigh in on that end. Filming begins in Iowa next month, so are you ready to tap into your darker, power-hungry side?

Dueling projects should be no problem. They happen so frequently, in fact, that this is the second time today we have a post about them. But since there's often a loser among each pair of competing projects (think Infamous, Wyatt Earp, First Daughter), it is important to be the first film released. Therefore things can get pretty cutthroat, as in the court case of Madonna's Maverick Films versus Inferno Distribution. We've already told you about Maverick's version of the Stanford Prison Experiment (titled, appropriately, The Stanford Prison Experiment), but it seems Inferno also has a movie about the infamous psychological prison tests.

Apparently the competition got ugly when Inferno dishonestly acquired confidential info about Maverick's version. Maverick sued Inferno in October. Then Inferno counter-sued in December. Now a judge has ordered the two parties to enter into a mediation to settle things up. If the production companies can't reach an agreement, the case will go to trial next January. Continuing problems between the two projects could very well end badly for both, as sometimes there are in fact two losers among a pair of competing projects. Fifteen years ago there was some legal dispute between the makers of 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, and neither film performed well. And considering there has already been a film based on the Stanford Prison Experiment, audiences could very well ignore two more.