Hong Kong conglom Media Asia has set up a remake of "Exiled" with Samuel Hadida ("Silent Hill," "Domino") aboard to produce.

Media Asia is the entity responsible for "Infernal Affairs" and its "The Departed" remake as well as recent Leonardo DiCaprio pickup "Confession of Pain."

"Exiled," which has overtones of Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns, tracks the desperate last rolls of the dice by five hoodlums in Macau in the late 1990s, shortly before the territory was handed back to China.

Pic was directed by cult crime helmer Johnnie To and preemed in competition at the Venice Film Festival last year. After a North American bow at Toronto, "Exiled" was subsequently picked up by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner's Magnolia Pictures.

Hadida's Davis Films acquired remake rights to the pic through Los Angeles-based producer Molly Hassell ("The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things"). Hadida now plans to develop the redo as a big-budget action pic.

"Exiled" is a "masterful film. The story is as compelling as Media Asia's 'Infernal Affairs' trilogy," Hadida said. "We look forward to similarly developing the 'Exiled' story into a major English-language film for the global marketplace."

"Exiled" was scripted by Szeto Kam-yuen and Yip Tin-shing. It was a Media Asia presentation of a Milky Way Image production and produced John Chong and To.

Hadida is in post-production on "Resident Evil: Extinction," the third in the horror series produced with Constantin Film, and is now prepping "Solomon Kane" to shoot this summer in Europe with Michael Bassett writing and directing.

Media Asia last month sold cop drama "Confession of Pain" for remake to Warner Bros. DiCaprio's Appian Way shingle and Vertigo Entertainment are set to produce, and "Departed" scripter William Monaghan will reprise his role.

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