I‘m sure many of us around here will be glad to hear this news: The planned Steven Spielberg-Will Smith Oldboy film has halted in the negotiation stages and now looks as if it’s dead in the water. Latino Review has a tip that production companies Mandate and DreamWorks didn’t see eye to eye, negotiation for the rights to the manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya (on which Park Chan-Wook’s incredible Korean film was based) have fallen through and DreamWorks is walking away from the project.
/Film and Film School Rejects wonder if it’s still possible that another production company might just pick up where DreamWorks left off, but let’s just keep our fingers crossed this is the end of it, okay? Going off the original manga was at least a better idea than a direct remake of Park’s film, but come on. Oldboy is a pretty perfect film as it is, and everyone should just rent that one. I can only imagine the happy/sentimental ending it would’ve gotten in an American version.
And anyone else working on remaking a foreign film that’s only a few years old? Please stop. Now. (Yes, I’m looking at you, Let Me In. /pipe dream)
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Oh, and Let Me In – sigh…
double sigh…
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