Warner Bros Remaking Chan-Wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeancehttp://www.firstshowing.net/2010/01/07/warner-bros-remaking-chan-wooks-sympathy-for-mr-vengeance/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/01/07/warner-bros-remaking-chan-wooks-sympathy-for-mr-vengeance/)
What happened to that Oldboy remake with Will Smith? Variety is reporting tonight that Warner Brothers has acquired remakes right to Park Chan-wook's 2002 film Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, this first in his brutal but brilliant Vengeance Trilogy. The studio has already assigned Brian Tucker (of the upcoming Broken City) to write the script. Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, G.I. Joe) is producing along with Mark Vahradian, Miky Lee, Ted Kim, and Paranormal Activity producer Steven Schneider. Interestingly, French filmmaker and JCVD director Mabrouk El Mechri is also executive producing. An odd mix of people.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is the one film from the Vengeance Trilogy that I haven't seen yet, so I can't speak to it. The film is a "bleak and violent tale of revenge gone wrong." It tells the story of a poor man who kidnaps a young girl to pay for his sister's much-needed transplant. When the young girl accidentally dies, her bereaved father goes on a search for answers and vengeance. My first concern regarding any remake of a Park Chan-wook film is how they'll be able to make it without including all the insane brutality and violence that Park does. They better hire a director as brilliant at Martin Scorsese to handle this or we're screwed.
A quiet, professional killer, Hyun-jun, arrives at a house to kill a man in his sleep,
only to discover a woman alone under the sheets. She shouts at the dazed Hyun-jun,
“What’s the matter with you. I paid for you, so just kill me.”
Jin-young has decided to kill herself after a traumatic break up with her lover of seven years,
but she wants to go out with a bang, not with a miserable and lonely dose of commonplace
sleeping pills. Hyun-jun is furious at the woman and abandons the mission despite the fact
that he has a contract to fulfill. “You should kill yourself; I’m not your suicide assistant.”
This is how Hyun-jun and Jin-young first meet. The most extraordinary love story begins.
i know a good movie when I see it XDreally recommend this movie. so moving and action packed. Full of dignity too ecspecially the last fight with the vietnam(?) guy
"The Man From Nowhere" tops local box office once again
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Korean action film "The Man From Nowhere" maintained its title as the most-watched movie in the country during the weekend of August 13 to 15, scoring its second win on the local box office.
According to the Korean Box Office System (KOBIS) on Monday, "Man," which opened in theaters in early August, attracted more moviegoers this weekend than the previous three-day period, selling 759,095 tickets which is an increase by 56,464 viewers.
"Man," starring Korean actor Won Bin and child actress Kim Sae-ron, is about a reclusive man named Tae-shik (Won Bin), a former special agent who runs a pawn shop and befriends So-mi (Kim), the young girl next door.
Meanwhile, new Korean thriller "I Saw the Devil," starring Hallyu star Lee Byung-hun and Choi Min-sik, entered the movie charts at No. 2 with 518,142 admissions, while Leonardo DiCaprio starrer "Inception" slipped a notch from last week to third place with 434,600 viewers.
Pixar's animated film "Toy Story 3" held onto the No. 4 spot on the chart with 290,434 tickets sold and Hollywood action pic "Salt" dropped two spots to fifth with 239,719 admissions.
Other movies on the top 10 included "Step Up 3-D," "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang," "Ocean World 3D," "The Experiment" and "Moss."
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A dour student, Young-gul, crosses paths with an elderly book salesman obsessed with Hitler and Nietzsche, a two-thousand year-old female corpse, and a mad scientist. Young-gul wants to commit suicide but the book salesman insists the human will even overcome biological death. Young-gul tests this by trying to kill him. Later the corpse comes to life in the hope that Young-gul will impregnate her.
It is the year of the white horse that arrives every sixty years. Three women (Women 1, Hwang Jeong-soon, 2, Nam Mi-ri, 3 Um Aing-ran) avoid sleeping with their husbands so they won't conceive girls on the year of the horse. However, young and healthy husbands (Husband 1 Park Am, 2, Yoon Il-bong, 3, Shin Seong-il) fall into great dilemma. Husbands make up 'pestling' exercise to release their energy and try their best to persuade their wives. Episodes such as lying about being pregnant to avoid having intercourse bring about cold war between husbands and wives. But in the end, they decide to forget about superstitions about the fate of girls born on the year of horse and return to their once-happy-relationships with one another.
Hyo-seop is a miserable novelist who has not yet published a single decent novel. He visits a publishing company where one of his junior colleagues works only to confirm that his manuscripts are worthless. That night, he goes out for a drink with friends, gets into a fight with a critic and ends up in jail. While suffering from a sense of inferiority and victim mentality for being treated as a third-class novelist, Hyo-seop falls madly in love with a married woman, Bo-kyung. Bo-kyung's husband Dong-woo has mysophobia and often goes on a business trip to Jinju. However, he doesn't trust Bo-kyung wholeheartedly. On the other hand, Minjae, a girl who works at a ticket booth in a movie theater, dreams of marrying novelist Hyo-seop. She is a girl with some sense of vanity and illusion of becoming a novelist's wife. She is happy as she helps Hyo-seop with editing his manuscripts. However, Hyo-seop is not satisfied with Minjae and indulges himself in an affair with Bo-kyung. Bo-kyung believes that she can always come back to her senses whenever she wants to and decides to escape from her marriage with Hyo-seop.
I skimmed through the thread, and I don't think "I Saw the Devil" was mentioned!
http://asianwiki.com/I_Saw_the_Devil (http://asianwiki.com/I_Saw_the_Devil)
If you enjoyed "Old Boy" then I'm sure you would like this movie.
"http://asianwiki.com/Hello_Ghost (http://asianwiki.com/Hello_Ghost)" is another good movie. Hello Ghost stars Kim Tae-Hyun, who never fails to fill a role in a comedy.
Gah, I could recommend a lot more, but nothing comes to mind atm.