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PseudoPod => Chamber of Horror => Topic started by: deflective on November 08, 2008, 01:55:48 AM

Title: oldboy reborn
Post by: deflective on November 08, 2008, 01:55:48 AM

could this (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/07/spielberg-smith-oldboy-remake) possibly work out?

Title: Re: oldboy reborn
Post by: Thaurismunths on November 08, 2008, 03:49:46 AM

i haven't seen oldboy, and I don't know how well Will Smith could play a Korean man, but I think he'd be a great actor in a dark movie if only people would leave the Fresh Prince out of it.

Title: Re: oldboy reborn
Post by: DKT on November 08, 2008, 04:03:03 AM

I don't think it can work...although I think both Smith and Spielberg are super talented.

But Oldboy is something that is so disturbing, by the end you just feel so dirty...I just can't imagine either of them doing it the way it was done before. 

That said, they probably can make a great movie if they make it their own, just as long as they don't try to make exactly the same movie.  It just won't be Oldboy.

Title: Re: oldboy reborn
Post by: deflective on November 08, 2008, 04:50:41 AM

that feels about right. it could be a good movie but it probably wont be oldboy, not the way we know it. i am legend comes to mind.

i'm particularly interested to see Spielberg's interpretation of the one take fight scene.

Title: Re: oldboy reborn
Post by: DKT on November 08, 2008, 05:37:02 AM

He better get a GREAT choreographer...

Title: Re: oldboy reborn
Post by: oddpod on November 08, 2008, 07:00:41 PM

know way on earth hollwood culd make a film ethan vaguly simler to old boy

Title: Re: oldboy reborn
Post by: Kevin David Anderson on November 09, 2008, 05:27:51 PM

If there must be a remake, it could be in worse hands.  Imagine the folks at Disney (HM3) looking for a new franchise.  Oldboy - the Musical.  Tap shoes, jazz hands, and blood.   

I just see a remake as more a Quentin, Lynch, or even a Burton kind of project.