Some more information about that Oldboy remake that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are reportedly working on. According to the Fresh Prince, the project will not be a direct remake of Park Chan-Wook's film, but an adaptation of the original Japanese manga: Will Smith Says Oldboy is an Adaptation of the Comic.
Interesting, considering that the South Korean film apparently departed quite a bit from the source material. I'm told that the setup is the same, but the rest is completely different. I don't know if this information satisfies the naysayers. Frankly, when one mentions Oldboy, I immediately think of the Korean film (it's kind of hard to get out of your head)—not the comic book.
I wonder if this is the beginning of something we'll be hearing a lot with this project—the insistence that the movie will be based on Japanese, and not the Korean film. Why do I get the feeling that Will Smith finally got around to watching Park's crazy-ass film, realized what he might be getting into, and said, "Oh, hell no!"
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