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Jarome_Turner
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 Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:46 am Post subject: Steven Spielberg & Will Smith to remake OldBoy |
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Could be interesting:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/19/oldboy-remake-spielberg-smith
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I Am Legend writer tipped for Spielberg and Smith's Oldboy remakeProposed project may reunite writer Mark Protosevich with Will SmithBen Child
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday November 19 2008 11.42 GMT
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I Am Legend writer Mark Protosevich is in talks to pen the high-profile remake of the Korean thriller Oldboy being developed by Steven Spielberg and Will Smith, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
If signed, the deal would reunite Smith with Protosevich - they worked together on the $584m-grossing (�388m) science fiction blockbuster. Spielberg is expected to direct the project, which centres on a man imprisoned in a grubby cell for 15 years for no apparent reason. Once freed, he is given money, clothes and a mobile phone and sets out to discover who stole his life from him in order to take revenge.
Park Chan-wook's original 2003 film has developed cult classic status following its debut at Cannes in 2004, where jury president Quentin Tarantino unsuccessfully tried to persuade his fellow panellists to award it the Palme d'Or.
Spielberg and Smith are said to have been searching for a project on which to collaborate for a number of years. The Oscar-winning film-maker secured the remake rights through his DreamWorks company prior to its highly publicised split with Paramount two months ago.
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ceadem
Joined: 11 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Why!? This pisses me off, instead of remaking why don't they just show the original in the cinema  same goes for Quarantine too! Grrr... |
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sargx
Joined: 29 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it'll be a fine movie... as long as you don't relate it to the original. They're going to remake it into something else. I'm sure they will take away the incest aspects. I'd imagine it turns more into: "Taken" or "Man on Fire" than "Old Boy." |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Steven Spielberg + Will Smith=crapulence. |
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Bailsibub
Joined: 22 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess they haven't gotten word of "My Sassy Girl" yet.... |
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Jane
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Old Boy is one of my all time favourite flicks. I wish they would leave it alone. In any case, they'll probably produce a movie that has little in common to the original. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| As I believe many of us know, Oldboy is based on a Japanese manga. It would be nice to see a Japanese cinematic version. I can't imagine Steven Spielberg doing this movie. |
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greekvvedge
Joined: 19 Jun 2007
Location: Apkujeong
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
| As I believe many of us know, Oldboy is based on a Japanese manga. It would be nice to see a Japanese cinematic version. I can't imagine Steven Spielberg doing this movie. |
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Freakstar
Joined: 29 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Spielberg + Will Smith doing Oldboy? Meh. Not the director or actor I had in mind. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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This has 'bad idea' written all over it.
I guess Spielburg can afford to follow every bad idea that takes his fancy and no one around him will criticize it because they're all on the gravy train. |
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