TORONTO - Quebec's summer box-office smash "De pere en flic" is getting the Hollywood treatment.

Telefilm Canada says Sony Pictures has bought the rights to the French-language hit and will develop an English-language version tentatively titled "Fathers and Guns."

The project will be helmed by heavyweight producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, whose big-budget outings include "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

"De pere en flic" producer Denise Robert and writer-director Emile Gaudreault will also produce.

The summer smash is considered the highest-grossing French-language film ever released in Quebec and Canada. It was No. 1 at the box office when it opened in Quebec in June.

The cop comedy centres on a father-and-son police team who despise each other but must work together when they infiltrate a group-therapy camp.

Kennedy says she's excited about the adaptation.

"'De pere en flic' is a fantastically funny film, and we're excited to be part of the process of getting this story out to as many people as possible," Kennedy said Tuesday in a release.

"We greatly admire the work that went into the movie, and recognize that it will be hard to replicate a creative team like Emile Gaudreault, Ian Lauzon and Denise Robert. We just hope that we can make the English-language adaptation as entertaining and successful as the original has been in Quebec."

"De pere en flic" features Michel Cote, who starred in 2005's "C.R.A.Z.Y.," and Louis-Josee Houde, who would be familiar to English-language audiences for his turn as an oddball forensic tech in "Bon Cop Bad Cop."