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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Oldboy</title>
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		<title>OLDBOY remake dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oldboy remake is done.

Latino Review report from "a trusted source" that Mandate (Korean studio behind the original film) and Dreamworks were unable to see eye-to-eye during negotiations over the manga's rights and it left Dreamworks into walking out on the project, along with Steven Spielberg and his star/producer Will Smith.
Oldboy survives for now but Hollywood continue
with remakes of Let the Right One In and
The Orphanage, among others.  
And without Dreamworks, there is no Hollywood remake.

Mark Protosevich had been writing the screenplay under Dreamwork's money I believe (and who knows if he actually penned anything because if he had, it could only be on the presumption they were to secure the rights), so it's not even like another studio could come in and take his screenplay and hatch a pitch to Mandate (unless of course Dreamworks sold them the script).

So at the moment it looks like there's not gonna be an Oldboy remake, at least not for many a year. Sanity restored. Birds can restore their morning song. The world is right again. ]]></description>
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		<title>Oddly Disappointing: THIRST Official Cannes Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Status: In Competition

I initially missed the press screenings of this, so set off earlier today to catch the Day After Screening at the Salle Soixantieme, on the recommendation of Michael Edwards and Matt. I confess that my knowledge of Chan Wook Park's canon of work extends little further than Old Boy, which I was blown away by, though I am of course aware of the Vengeance trilogy and have set aside three spaces on my never-ending list of films I must see. So I wasnt sure what to expect- especially given that any cursory glance over already existing reviews suggests a veritable smorgasbord of opinion.

What I found was a movie heavy on style (as expected), but somewhat lacking in narrative discipline. The camerawork is sublime, and the design of the film (another success notch for Ryo Seong Hee along with Hansel &#38; Gretel and The Host) well on par with the look of Old Boy- hence the various critical cries that this is a return to form for Park. But as with Spring Fever a few days ago, the aesthetic merit of a film cannot always hide the cracks, and it pains me to report that Thirst has a few.

Firstly the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Will Smith says OLDBODY remake, is not a remake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Film School Rejects got a rare chance this week to speak to Will Smith out promoting his new movie SEVEN POUNDS where of course the topic of discussion soon turned to the recently announced Hollywood remake of the Korean 2003 classic movie OLDBOY which we know now will be written by Mark Protosevich (I AM LEGEND) and directed by Steven Spielberg.

Smith says it's definitely happening and that it's not their intention to remake the Chan-wook Park movie but are instead looking to adapt the original Japanese manga graphic novels by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya novels for screen, just like Park did when he first stumbled across them.
We’re looking at that right now. Not the film though, it’s the original source material. 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…,” said Smith.


As I've never read the original source material, I have taken the top google entry for "oldboy manga review", a piece written by Floating Sakura at Manga Jouhou...
In comparing the manga with the movie, I see the two are actually quite different, although the general plot line is the same. To be ...]]></description>
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		<title>Writer of I AM LEGEND to reunite with Will Smith on OLDBOY remake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so the Summer tentpole blockbuster plans for the OLDBOY remake continues. The Hollywood Reporter say Mark Protosevich (I AM LEGEND, POSEIDON) is in talks with Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks to come up with a screenplay for the redo of the 2003 Chan-wook Park Korean classic.

As we mentioned two weeks ago, Will Smith is attached to lead and produce with Spielberg directing. All signs pointed towards a July 4th, watered down blockbuster and hiring the man who wrote the words which helped Smith make $584 million for Warner Bros. last year with I AM LEGEND, is further sad evidence of this.



Dreamworks are still trying to hatch a deal with Mandate who own the rights to the original film, who quite understandably are wanting to get a good deal out of this because a Smith/Spielberg combination should be huge.

Now I was in favour of I AM LEGEND, I thought it was a pretty good adaptation. It was only about 40% of the power of the original novel but the heart of it was still there and if it was an original screenplay, I think more people would have dug it.

What it did show was that Protovosich can deliver a studio friendly ...]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Spielberg &amp; Will Smith remaking OLDBOY</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can you say? We all know it ain't going to work. I hate to dismiss a big Hollywood project from this early a stage but I will eat a live octopus if this movie ends up being anything but a disaster. 

Variety carry the news this morning that the biggest movie star on the planet, Will Smith, is to work with the legendary Steven Spielberg for the very first time on what is likely to be a July 4th Hollywood Blockbuster. Right on! That gets you excited huh? And you know, usually I would be too... hoping for maybe a new MINORITY REPORT with Will Smith (I, ROBOT, I AM LEGEND) in the lead.
Think again...


They are remaking the disturbing, the frightening, the absolute one movie that I can guarantee will leave you with the God damn shakes and that's Chan-wook Park's 2003 Korean thriller OLDBOY. Already the remake is doomed. There ain't no way in anyone's imagination that this material should be seen with a wide multiplex release on a July 4th weekend. Just no way.

And if you water it down to secure that kind of release, then what's the point? You are stripping away what makes the original ...]]></description>
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