Steven Spielberg and Will Smith to Remake Oldboy?!

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Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are in talks to collaborate on a remake of Chan Wook-Park’s Oldboy. Spielberg has been looking for an opportunity to work with Smith for a few years now, and this just might be the project. DreamWorks is in the process of securing the remake rights, and Spielberg is on the search for a screenwriter to develop the project. The project was originally set up with Fast and Furious director Justin Lin.

In the 2003 South Korean film, a man named Dae-Su is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing why or who is holding him captive. He is suddenly released, given money, clothes and a cellphone and is sent on journey for revenge. The film won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and was highly praised by Jury President Quentin Tarantino. Roger Ebert called Oldboy a “powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare” … “We are so accustomed to ‘thrillers’ that exist only as machines for creating diversion that it’s a shock to find a movie in which the action, however violent, makes a statement and has a purpose.” It definitely has one of the best side-scrolling action scenes I’ve ever seen.

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My god, that makes me so angry. Imagine: Old boy..... by Spielberg!!!!

dear god, no... NO... NOHOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Remakes just piss me off...

CERTAINLY if they star that unfresh prince, that retard of a Will Smith!!!

and I find it an utterly repulsive concept to make an Amerikanised version of Asian masterpieces ("the ring" or "the grudge", for example... )

It devaluates the original, imo...

yes that's really shit but even more with Old Boy cause it is not like it is from an unknown director or something: it Chan-wook Park and the movie has Chan-wook Park touch. It can never be the same. And Spielberg is not the kind of director to have that violent vibe, no way it will anywhere near OldBoy

Ah well...

It's not as bad as a 2010 remake of Clockwork Orange...

labrat wrote:

CERTAINLY if they star that unfresh prince, that retard of a Will Smith!!!

this is still the most agonizing factor!!! definately!!!

pornologic wrote:

Ah well...

It's not as bad as a 2010 remake of Clockwork Orange...

true, true...

NEWS: Oldboy Won’t Be a Remake of Chan-wook Park’s Film (or will it?)

Two weeks ago is was announced that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith would be teaming up to remake Oldboy. The reaction was less than positive. The film is a classic and fans were not taking to the idea of a dulled down American remake. Will Smith officially confirmed to FilmSchoolRejects on the red carpet for Seven Pounds that yes he will be starring in version of Oldboy, but it’s not based off Chan-wook Park’s 2003 version.

Here is what he had to say…

"We’re looking at that right now. Not the film though, it’s the original source material. There’s the original comics of ‘Oldboy’ that they made the first film from. And that’s what we’re working from, not an adaptation of the film…,” said Smith."

According the FSR Spielberg will not be obtaining the rights to the film, but to the novel.

So does this mean that they are truly trying to tap into the source of Oldboy and not just slaughter it for an American box office payday? Will this really be a different film? Or is this just a lot of babble?

This is a lot of babble!

But I like it!