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Does anyone have any pictures, videos or news about this film?
Are you looking forward to it?
I am I bloody love the original I just hope the remake does it some justice
Are you looking forward to it?
I am I bloody love the original I just hope the remake does it some justice
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I'll be expecting a watered-down version. I took that approach with TGWTDT and was pleasantly surprised. Hopefully it isn't a complete disaster.
I was against a remake but am very curious what Spike Lee pulls out plus it has a great cast and I remember reading somewhere that Park Chan-wook is okay with it.
Why would Park Chan-wook not be okay with it when it was Egg Films and Show East that sold the remake rights?
Park's a co-owner of Egg Films (which he co-founded with four directors Lee Young-jae, Kwak Jae-yong, Bae Chang-ho and Lee Mu-young), which produced Oldboy after buying the script from three new scriptwriters and the rights from comic creators. The two scriptwriters are Chun-hyeong Lim and Jo-yun Hwang, who adapted Lim's brother Joon-hyung Lim's story treatment of the comic, which was created by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi. The Lim brothers and Hwang were huge fans of the comic, hence the birth of their script.
Hm. Would anyone be interested to know how these unproduced scriptwriters managed to get their script made? Yeah, why not?
When Egg Films were forming as a director-oriented production company - the first of its kind - in 2000 or 2001, they created a window of opportunity for unsolicited scripts. The Lim brothers and Hwang sent in theirs, with a request to have it read by Bae Chang-ho, who was at the time the best known of all directors in this house. Bae's assistant read it and thought it would be more suitable for Park, who was looking for something similar to his short film, Judgement, which involved identity confusion.
However, due to scriptwriters' lack of industry experience, they didn't have the comic writers and publisher's permission to adapt the comic, which they already did, so Egg Films via Show East made a deal with Futabasha. No one knows what this deal involved, but Futabasha authorised the sale. Park had also revised the script to bring it up to the professional standards, but according to most people, 80% were still all Lim and Hwang's work including the corridor fight scene; an idea they openly admitted borrowing from Young and Dangerous, a popular HK gangster film. (I thought it was Park who borrowed the idea, but I was corrected last year.)
In any case, Spike Lee's company, 40 Acres and a Mule, bought the adaptation rights to the comic and Mandate Films (now owned by Lionsgate) bought the remake rights to Park's film after Dreamworks' remake option ended. The joint partnership means Lee could pool both rights to create his own interpretation of the story, which can include the iconic corridor fight scene (it doesn't show up in the comic).
Agreed! I was disappointed to hear they were remaking it.
I can just foresee the media uproar when the final twist is realised.
Going by what cast and director have said about the film so far, it's definitely not a watered down version. This is one adaptation of the original comic that I'm looking forwards too. Great cast and apparently the fans of the comic are very happy with the casting of Josh Brolin.
If anyone really wants to see a bad remake of Oldboy, head to India, they remade it into a horrendous film and gave it a safe ending, think it was called Zinda.
http://m.joblo.com/joblo/news/47941
http://movies.yahoo.com/trailers/redband/oldboy/
Cant wait
Why in the world are you disappointed in the idea of a remake. Just don't see it when it comes out. It's as simple as that.
It's pretty weird how people overreact to a remake of a film that they love. The original film will forever be untouched. A remake is just another retelling of it. No one's arms are being twisted to watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8gpi44y4TU
I'm not averse to them remaking it, but when it appears to be a shot for shot remake in places then it just seems lazy.
I do sort of agree, but the complaints do beg the question about lack of inventiveness. Maybe the time, talent and money should have been spent doing something new? Still, as you say, the old film is still there for anyone who can't stomach remakes of non-English language films.
I seem to be one of the handful who didn't think the original Oldboy was some sort of masterpiece, so this remake looks a bit....oh, if you must.
Most people have seen the original yet are moaning saying the remake trailer gives to much away.
Just treat it like a stand alone film.
Sounds as though Spike Lee's lost the plot. Mind you, he always was a vastly overrated director.
Looks like another remake no-one really needed/wanted.