Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks Studios is currently looking to purchase the rights to Woo-Park’s film Oldboy(2003)for a remake with Will Smith.
The film Oldboy is about a man(Ho Dae-Su) who was inexplicably kidnapped and imprisoned only to be set free and given cash, a cell phone and flashy new gear some 15 years later. Dae-Su then seeks revenge and an explanation from his captor only to find out that the kidnapper still has plans for him that are far worse than the 15 years he spent captive. It’ll be interesting to see how they duplicate this epic fight scene if this remake goes down.
epic indeed! must now see OLD BOY!
It seems that Will Smith is ideal for EVERY role(sarcastic tone + smirk)
Seriously, what the fuck is with these insta-remakes? Oldboy barely hit a couple years back. I know there’s a horror movie making huge waves called Let The Right One In that is barely out in theaters and is already being queued up for a remake. Why not just let us see the original films for fucks sake, without Americans shitting all over themselves to make it in their own ‘vision’? Oldboy is part of a trilogy of revenge, it’s got a singleminded fuck-upedness that American directors likely will pussyfoot around and try to conceal with explosions and star power.
That being said, it’d be nice if it was good. It might be, but it won’t be Oldboy. It’ll be another movie with a glancing similarity and the same title. You heard it here first, with much profanity and indignation.
Love that sequence….