The Grey director Joe Carnahan will write and direct a Death Wish remake.

The director later revealed on his Twitter page, that he was writing a role for The Grey‘s Frank Grillo, although he would not be playing the lead role of Paul Kersey. Yesterday, Frank Grillo appeared on The Matthew Aaron Show, and cleared up the reports on Death Wish, revealing Russell Crowe is being eyed to star as Paul Kersey.

“He (Joe Carnahan) is imagining it as a two hander, it’s not just (Charles) Bronson, it’s two brothers. If Russell Crowewas going to be the guy, I’d want you to be his brother.”

“It’s certainly not going to do what the (Charles) Bronson movies did, they were fun but when you go back and watch them they don’t really hold up very well, they were a product of their time. He (Carnahan) wants to do something far more interesting, like what Lumet had in mind for the film.”

Before Charles Bronson starred in Death Wish, it was originally going to star Jack Lemmon and be directed by Sidney Lumet. Instead of being the action film we think of it being today, it sounds like Carnahan and Crowe are going to focus in on more of the dramatic aspects of the original story.