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01-31-2006, 10:29 AM	#1
DayLahs Will Never Be Another Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 46,179	Director Justin Lin Talks 'Oldboy' Remake courtesy of bloody disgusting If there's one movie that probably shouldn't be made, its Park Chan-wook's Oldboy- to me that's like remaking E.T. or Jurassic Park. But hell, it's going to happen, and Justin Lin is attached to helm the remake of the classic Korean film, now available on DVD from Tartan Extreme. Inside you'll find a portion of an interview with Lin, which details where they are in terms of remaking the flick. After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days... Portion from Suicide Girls interview: DRE: I’ve heard a couple rumors of rumors about the Oldboy remake. That the main character will eat tacos instead of squid. Is that correct? Justin: [laughs] We’re just playing around. We went from tacos to burritos but right now we’re so far away from it being a reality. I love that film and the only reason I wanted to explore that avenue is because it really spoke to me. I didn’t sign on to make a Xerox copy of the original because it’s a masterpiece. I wanted to explore other themes within it. If I was going to come close to making a Xerox I hope I have enough sense to stop that process. Oldboy is one of those projects where structurally it’s so solid and it brings up so many great themes that you could give it to ten different filmmakers and it would be interesting to see what comes out of each of them. So far Universal has been very open to anything. I told them that I’m not signing on unless we’re not going to water down the ending. It has always been important to make sure that it’s understood up front what we’re trying to accomplish. DRE: Is Nicolas Cage still attached? Justin: We don’t have formal attachments. It’s a great movie and any actor in their right mind would want to be a part of it. I know he said publicly he’d be interested in it. I just don’t think we’re at that stage yet so hopefully after I wrap this movie I’ll have a little bit more time to play around and see what comes up. they might as well remake every single movie ever created __________________

01-31-2006, 10:32 AM

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but right now we’re so far away from it being a reality

only good news so far.

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01-31-2006, 10:51 AM	#3
Bionic Commando Tom Cruisin' Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Irlanda Del Norte Posts: 4,050	UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! It'd be funny if Matt Damon was Oh Dae-Su. __________________ http://ad-hoc-committee.blogspot.com/

01-31-2006, 01:11 PM	#4
Iris Highly, I say Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ireland Posts: 5,103	I have some bad feelings about this. I can't see the last segments of the movie being left intact, they really wouldn't go down well with an American audience for several reasons. I just hope they don't make Dae-Su beat up all the bad guys at the end and stick in a happy ending __________________

01-31-2006, 03:12 PM	#5
Daisy It's only appropriate. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Nowhere Posts: 30,682	Way to trample all over yet another fantastic film.

01-31-2006, 03:15 PM	#6
Deacon anti-social commentary Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 27,461	I don't even see a point in remaking it at all. Oh no, subtitles! __________________ CA Blog: I was a SEGA kid

01-31-2006, 06:47 PM

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Oh dear lord. It sounds like they will ruin an absolutely sweet film. Did i type sweet i meant ****. Sorry i was thinking of the original. Why oh why?

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01-31-2006, 06:57 PM	#8
Daisy It's only appropriate. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Nowhere Posts: 30,682	We watched another part of the vengence trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengence, on Saturday with Tuff Ghost and it wasn't nearly as good as Oldboy. Lady Vengence looks pretty neat, but remaking Oldboy, which is already just a stellar film is just plain stupid.

01-31-2006, 08:53 PM	#9
Coconut Can has custom title? Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 15,975	I've never heard of Oldboy outside of these forums. Maybe I should look into it.

01-31-2006, 08:55 PM	#10
Daisy It's only appropriate. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Nowhere Posts: 30,682	It's absolutely one of the best films I've ever seen.

01-31-2006, 09:09 PM	#11
Rogue Mr. Flibble Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: England Posts: 6,777	I'd never heard of it until somebody mentioned it last week.

01-31-2006, 09:10 PM	#12
Cody vvvvvv Join Date: May 2002 Location: internet space station Posts: 12,565	They had a big viewing of it last semester here. I didn't find out until a few days after. I was pretty bummed.

02-01-2006, 01:56 AM	#13
Sir Burley Bee Quantum Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,611	I really can't get my head around Lin's decision to do the film. I'm guessing it has something to do with the critics who made him out to be the saviour of Asian-American culture following Better Luck Tomorrow, though based on what I've heard about Annapolis, maybe I misjudged him all along and he sucks. __________________

02-01-2006, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Coconut

I've never heard of Oldboy outside of these forums. Maybe I should look into it.

I think you should also, taku, daisy and a couple others told me about it and how awesome it is. I went to best buy and bought it and I will forever listen to their opinions on movies I've never seen before cause Oldboy is AWESOME.

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