Spielberg to set up "Oldboy" remake with Will Smith?!

[ferretchucker]

Why do hollywood insist on butchering asian flicks?

[chaibill]

So Will Smith read a script where this happens doing your daughter you haven't seen in 15 years and cutting out your tongue and staying with her and thought yeah i think this is great. I think it will be changed a lot.
Are there any american remakes that are good. They should let the italians do them like the Man with no name trilogy.

[Papillon Noir]

I don't think the average american would go for this movie. It's pretty extreme, but if they try to tone it down I think it will just come off lame. And the original is just so good, why screw with this? I swear, they will remake Citizen Kane next.

[roshiq]

Originally Posted by neverending

This is as bad an idea as the 3 Stooges thing....

Agree.

I didn't expect anything like this from Spielberg. It's really sad to see that he's badly having an idea crisis for a movie plot.

Anyway, now I'm quite pretty sure that movies like Battle Royale and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance may be somewhere in pipeline in someones mind in Hollywood.:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Spielberg is next expected to direct "Tintin."

This is at least a tolerable news.:)

[doctor satan]

Can't believe theirs people on here saying this is a good idea.......Spirlberg & Smith:mad:
I'm totally sick of all the inferior remakes of Asian films for retarded dunb fucks who can't read subtitles, if someone can name a superior remake i'll stand corrected!

[neverending]

I don't think the concept of superiority even comes into it- it's purely an economic decision.

[_____V_____]

Update


According to THR, Mark Protosevich - who wrote the first draft of I Am Legend - is in talks to write the film where a man gets kidnapped and held in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. Suddenly, he's released and given money, a cell phone and clothes and is set on a path to discover who destroyed his life so he can take revenge.

[Painfulldeath]

Sounds like it's official. I'm depressed. :(

[_____V_____]

November 21, 2008


Hot on the heels of news that I Am Legend scribe Mark is to pen the screenplay for the Stephen Spielberg/Will Smith Oldboy movie, it seems that 'Big Willie' has finally spilled the beans about what we should expect from the project.

Apparently, the film won't be a direct remake of the movie, but rather an adaptation of the original graphic novel on which it was based.

"We're looking at that right now," Smith told Film School Rejects on the red carpet for his new film, Seven Pounds. "Not the film though, the original source material.

He continued, "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."

Oldboy is an 8-volume manga series written by Garon Tsuchiya and illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi. It was originally published from 1996-1998.

Will this be enough to ease the fears of fans of the Korean film?

[re93animator]

At least they got someone as good as Spielberg looking to direct. Im the only person in the world that tries to look at the positives of remakes.:rolleyes: