Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s OLDBOY Remake Project is Dead
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- By Venkman
Looks like fans of the film and manga Oldboy can rejoice at the fact that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith will no longer be remaking the film and Americanizing the Japanese manga. According to our friends at Latino Review the DreamWorks Oldboy film project is dead.
Spielberg and Smith were developing the new film from the comic book, not the original film. Not that it really matters, chances are it would have never been as good as the original film. I love the original Oldboy film, and I never saw the need to Americanize the story. So I’m kinda glad that the movie fell through.
So what happened? Mandate and DreamWorks didn’t see eye to eye on the project and DreamWorks bowed out. Lets hope no one else tries to jump on board and do it. Maybe now Speilberg can get to his Abraham Lincoln project sooner. What do you all think about the Oldboy remake falling through?
Thats a shame, I really enjoyed Oldboy, Although i'm pretty sure i would of driven to will smiths house and shot him, Despite being quite a fan, when he changed the err, controversial ending.
THANK GOD. there is no reason to remake it there is nothing that needs to be changed nothing that can be improved
I think that's the best thing I heard all day.
A bad remake has never ruined my enjoyment and memories of the original work.
I agree, why do people HAVE to associate the two. The same is true for a bad sequel, for example, the first Matrix is a standalone masterpiece.
Wonderful news
I'm not against remakes per se, but this one had disaster written all over it. Glad they saw sense. Then again I spent nearly a month subtitling the original so I feel weirdly possessive about it…
This is good news and all, but a part of me is sad. I wanted to see what they were gonna do with the source material. So much for that…