Spike Lee To Direct 'Oldboy' remake

[Octoberist]

again, read my new response. I wrote the post awkwardly.

 

[black_dust]

I wrote the post awkwardly.

Upside down with your feet?

 

[Octoberist]

why yes!

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/11/18/worst-idea-ever-poseidon-screenwriter-to-write-oldboy-remake/

Screenwriter Mark Protosevich is in talks to write the American remake of Oldboy for director Steven Speilberg. Star Will Smith reccomended Protosevich for the project after working with him on I Am Legend. Yes, your worst fears have come true, the guy who wrote the 2006 adaptation of Poseidon might be writing the script for the English-language adaptation of Old Boy. This can’t be good news.

 

[블라스]

Oh great

 

[Sentinel X]

I saw this movie for the first time last week! And why? whats the point?...This movie was made recently its not THAT old and it was well received so what is there to remake??

Its funny how in America we remake all these movies but whenever foreign countries remake American films (like Bollywood does) the world laughs at them....double standards I say!


And Steven Speilberg you are better than this! Work on Tin-tin instead!

 

[Anubis]

I thought those Bollywood movies were supposed to make the world laugh at it.

 

[PLAS]

I thought those Bollywood movies were supposed to make the world laugh at it.

and apparently, so are american remakes of foreign movies nowadays (REC/Quarantine)

 

[Anubis]

Well, that's true.....but i don't think they were necessarily supposed to make people laugh like the Bollywood movies. But then that kinda makes it funnier.

 

[black_dust]

Wait what? Oldboy isn't a Bollywood film

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/11/21/steven-spielbergs-oldboy-is-not-a-remake/

Steven Spielberg’s Oldboy is NOT a Remake


Two weeks ago it was reported that Steven Spielberg was developing a remake of Chan-wook Park’s Oldboy, with Will Smith attached to star. Apparently that isn’t exactly 100% true. Our friends at Film School Rejects got a chance to speak with Smith, who clarified that the movie would not be a remake of Park’s 2003 film.

“We’re looking at that right now. Not the film though, it’s the original source material,” Smith told FSR. “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…”

That’s right, Spielberg’s film will be based on the Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Read the official book synopsis below:

“Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn’t know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn’t know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. In time, he lost himself. He changed . . . transformed himself into something else . . . something hard . . . something lethal. Suddenly one day, his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk, and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what’s left of his life . . . and what’s left is revenge.”

The Onion AV Club says that “the manga’s story isn’t nearly as propulsive and grim as the film version, but as soon as their plotlines begin to deviate, the manga becomes just as compelling.” So while the short plot synopsis sounds similar, it appears that the film adaptation did deviate from Minegishi and Tsuchiya’s original manga. But does that make this “adaptation” any more tolerable to fans of the 2003 South Korean film?

 

[Crook]

Hrm, very interesting. I have not read the comic, so I guess I will have to check that out some time. Can anyone comment on how it compares to the film?

 

[cerealkiller182]

Didnt even know there was a comic.

 

[TheVileOne]

I've read the manga and it is very different, but whatever.

It does kind of go along with that they wouldn't make something that's as hard as the Korean version.

 

[black_dust]

It does kind of go along with that they wouldn't make something that's as hard as the Korean version.

Which is disappointing

 

[TheVileOne]

The manga is basically like a gritty kind of anime more than the movie which was just messed up and Park made it part of his revenge trilogy.

The main guy was never married with child. He had a fiance who moved on while he was imprisoned. He was also in his 20's and imprisoned for 10 years, so he's about mid-30's upon release rather than 40's.

 

[Crook]

I wouldn't say the film has to be as dark and dreary as the original. I mean, that movie is about as bleak as it gets after you're through with it.

Again, I'll have to read the comic. But if the story is at least dark and interesting with no sacrifice for violent imagery, then I'm all for it.

 

[TheVileOne]

It's not so dark and bleak as the movie. The main guy's made out to be more of a cooler, introspective, badass type. It's also very procedural in how he tries to figure out the details of his capture and imprisonment, very dense.

 

[Crook]

So if the film is a 10/10, how would you compare the original story overall?

 

[Doctor Jones]

I think we can all stop the bashing of Spielberg of Smith now that this is an adaption. Jeez, whenever you disagree with something, no matter how good the filmmaker or actor, some people always start to go off and bash their incapabilities or films they didn't particularly like and just start assuming. Never assume.

 

[Jackasscoley15]

So I'm just going to venture a guess and say that Spielberg has abandoned Lincoln.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

So I'm guess they're killing the twist by saying they're not adapting the movie.

 

[TheVileOne]

So if the film is a 10/10, how would you compare the original story overall?

Well I don't personally have quite the reverence for the movie that some people do. In some ways I like the manga more, but that's mainly because it is a manga and there are certain things about the manga I find cooler. I like that the manga is like this really cool, urban black/white film noir story.

However, I can't see Smith/Spielberg doing either version justice. That they are going for the manga version kind of proves they won't do anything that's bold or really controversial.

Even when Spielberg does "dark" stuff he always wraps it up with a bow at the end. Look at how unambiguously he ended Minority Report. Blade Runner it was not.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Well I don't personally have quite the reverence for the movie that some people do. In some ways I like the manga more, but that's mainly because it is a manga and there are certain things about the manga I find cooler. I like that the manga is like this really cool, urban black/white film noir story.

However, I can't see Smith/Spielberg doing either version justice. That they are going for the manga version kind of proves they won't do anything that's bold or really controversial.

Even when Spielberg does "dark" stuff he always wraps it up with a bow at the end. Look at how unambiguously he ended Minority Report. Blade Runner it was not.

How can't you see it? I would think that anyone can imagine anything. What you're really saying is that it wouldn't work for you?

 

[craigdbfan]

Well I don't personally have quite the reverence for the movie that some people do. In some ways I like the manga more, but that's mainly because it is a manga and there are certain things about the manga I find cooler. I like that the manga is like this really cool, urban black/white film noir story.

However, I can't see Smith/Spielberg doing either version justice. That they are going for the manga version kind of proves they won't do anything that's bold or really controversial.

Even when Spielberg does "dark" stuff he always wraps it up with a bow at the end. Look at how unambiguously he ended Minority Report. Blade Runner it was not.

Munich in my opinion was Spielbergs best attempt at a "dark" film. So I still have some faith that he can pull off this "Old Boy" adaptation.