High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Funny Games is a 2007 psychological thriller film written and directed by Michael Haneke, a remake of Haneke`s 1997 Austrian film of the same name. Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, and Michael Pitt star in the main roles. The film is a shot-for-shot remake of its predecessor, translated into English and set in the United States with different actors. Exterior scenes were filmed on Long Island.