Drug War likely to be remade (and ruined?) as a U.S. film

I wasn't the idea viewer for Johnnie To's Chinese action movie Drug War last night as still sleep deprived from World Series but can say that the film, though there's no particular depth to it, the title says it all, it's basically a story of some drug-enforcement agencies trying to break up a massive manufacturing and smuggling ring, it meets all its goals - fast action and some very imaginative and gripping sequences. Essentially, story, set in a small Chinese city - perhaps near the Hong Kong border? - flat and industrial and ugly (the kind of landscape the Dardennes brothers film so often in Belgium) get a tipoff about a bus coming in transporting a whole crowd of impoverished Chinese who'd been paid to stuff sacks of cocaine (?) into their rectums. Some pretty gruesome and probably realistic scenes as the police extract the evidence in various ways. One guy involved with the ring - a meth manufacturer it appears - nearly dies in an explosion, is captured, and agrees to help the cops (his wife and her sibs did die in the explosion, as we see in another gruesome visit to the site). The lead cop ultimately impersonates a rather bizarre and frightening mega-dealer called HaHa because of his propensity to laugh at everything and everyone. Many frightening and powerful moments of tense confrontation - in particular, a sequence in which the cop is forced to ingest some coke (or smack?) and nearly dies. Everyone's caught, ultimately, of course, but the ending is darker than you would imagine - going places where no American film is likely to venture, especially if this were remade at the U.S.-Mexican border, which I can imagine it might be.

Before watching Drug War we started watching the much-touted documentary, Leviathon, which is of the style now quite popular in which there is no voice-over, no interviews, just actually filming of the subject over a long period of time - very successful in the excellent documentary Sweet Grass - but much less so here. Topic seems to be deep-sea trawling fisherman, and after 20 minutes of sometimes beautiful footage - in an abstract way - it's obvious that the work is cold, dangerous, almost inhumanly difficult, but very hard to ascertain what's happening in any of the sequences, filmed at night with a juttery hand-held camera. Couldn't go any further - got the point.