Will Smith to star in Steven Spielberg’s Old Boy
January 29th 2009 02:59
Old Boy Jones and the temple of Men In Black
Yep, that's how I feel too.
Many putrid smelling, disease riddled by-products of waste may have filtered through to gossip pages via MTV, but this latest slice of PR nightmare has this writer squirming in a similar fashion to what he would if Uwe Boll was funded to remake Le Samourai.
This week on MTV.com a rumour was confirmed. It turns out that Steven Spielberg plans to remake the Asian hammer smashing masterpiece Old Boy.
The holy source
Known for his Disneyfied style of storytelling, undermining the dark edges of his more challenging work with simplified niceties it is doubtful that the man who gave us E.T can handle the disturbing and confrontational plot points of the Manga source and its live action counterpart.
But it gets much worse. In talks for the lead is a man who managed to destroy I, Robot right from his Converse sneaker wearing love of Demolition Man. That’s right, here is a snippet from the interview with Fresh Prince Smith:
With the film and the original manga well-known for their disturbing themes — a crucial plot point involves incest — and graphic violence, is the typically family-friendly Spielberg up to the task of staying true to the dark, violent nature of the story?
“It’s the thing that Steven was attracted to,” Smith told MTV News. “We’re working from the comic and we haven’t done anything other than talk about it. So we’ll see what happens, but he’s not going to do anything that would be less than stunning.”
“It’s the thing that Steven was attracted to,” Smith told MTV News. “We’re working from the comic and we haven’t done anything other than talk about it. So we’ll see what happens, but he’s not going to do anything that would be less than stunning.”
It seems for the time being the project is only at the development stage, so maybe there’s hope. Perhaps, if Hollywood insists on remaking another unfaultering Asian original, they could hire a Director who’s at his best with taboos and not afraid to embrace the dichotomies of reality. David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, David Cronenberg and Oliver Stone perhaps?
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I am utterly appalled by this concept.
That's all I have to say.
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