Louis-José Houde, left, and Michel Côté, portray father-and-son cops in De père en flic. (Alliance Films)

Quebec's summer box-office smash De père 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 developed and produced by 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 Émile 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.

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