Steven Spielberg, Will Smith Remake of Oldboy

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Steven Spielberg, Will Smith Remake of Oldboy
Topic Started: Nov 7 2008, 03:37 PM (290 Views)
silversayian4	Nov 7 2008, 03:37 PM Post #1
Lillim Posts: 94 Group: Members Member #1,877 Joined: March 4, 2008	Steven Spielberg, Will Smith Discuss Remake of Oldboy Chan Wook-park adapted original film from Japanese psychological thriller manga The Variety entertainment trade news source reports that famed director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan , Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws) and action star Will Smith (Independence Day, I Am Legend, Men in Black) are dicussing a possible collaboration to remake Chan-wook Park's 2003 Oldboy film. Park himself had adapted his film from Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi's award-winning manga about a man who was imprisoned for over a decade and now hunts down his mysterious former kidnappers to take revenge. Universal Pictures had originally optioned the remake project, but the project has since found a new home at Mandate Pictures. Spielberg is reportedly still looking for a writer, and hopes to have Smith play the main character. Dark Horse Comics published the manga in North America from 2006 to 2007, and the manga won an Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan in 2007. Update: Variety reported last April that Spielberg's enthusiasm for a remake of Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga was a pivotal reason why the manga's publisher (Kodansha) chose to work with Spielberg's DreamWorks company on this other remake project. The Hollywood Reporter newspaper noted last week that the Ghost in the Shell remake project remains at DreamWorks despite DreamWorks' corporate separation from its longtime distributor, Paramount Pictures. Paramount would still have the option to co-finance and co-distribute the Ghost in the Shell remake if it goes forward.



Thrash Til' Death	Nov 7 2008, 06:59 PM Post #2
"You will love Avatar! YOU WILL LOVE AVATAR!" Posts: 5,385 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: April 9, 2006	Oh, fck off! Oldboy's five years old* for Christ's sake! What can Spielberg possibly hope to add to it by casting Will Smith?
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silversayian4	Nov 22 2008, 05:30 PM Post #3
Lillim Posts: 94 Group: Members Member #1,877 Joined: March 4, 2008	Spielberg, Smith Reportedly Adapting Old Boy Manga Itself Actor Will Smith says team is bypassing Korean film to adapt original manga The Film School Rejects website reports that actor Will Smith confirmed his involvement in Steven Spielberg's proposed Old Boy film at the premiere of his Seven Pounds film. However, Smith emphasized that the team is adapting Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi's original Old Boy manga, and not remaking Chan-wook Park's 2003 film version. According to the website, Smith said, "We're looking at that right now. Not the film though, it's the original source material. There's the original comics of Old Boy that they made the first film from. And that's what we're working from, not an adaptation of the film…." The Hollywood Reporter newspaper revealed on Wednesday that screenwriter Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, Poseidon, The Cell) is in early talks to script the project.



afterlife	Nov 22 2008, 11:37 PM Post #4
Kung-Fu Starfish Posts: 2,311 Group: Members Member #1 Joined: April 9, 2006	Thrash Til' Death Nov 7 2008, 06:59 PM Oh, fck off! Oldboy's five years old* for Christ's sake! What can Spielberg possibly hope to add to it by casting Will Smith? Here's what he could add: Mainstream appeal for westerners. Sad, but true. Infernal Affairs was only four years old when it was remade as The Departed. I had heard rumors about this remake a long time ago. There had been some rumors about Russell Crowe playing the main character and John Cusack playing the antagonist. I think those two would've been really good. I don't mind Will Smith being cast but I'm not sure Spielberg is the right director for a film like this.


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