Spike Lee In Talks To Do OldBoy Remakeby Wilson Morales
July 6, 2011
It’s been a while since Spike Lee directed a feature film, but Twitch is reporting that the filmmaker is in talks to direct the remake of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy.
In the 2003 Korean original, a man gets kidnapped and held in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. Suddenly, he’s released and given money, a cell phone and clothes and is set on a path to discover who destroyed his life so he can take revenge.
The film is set up at Mandate with Doug Davison and Roy Lee producing. Mark Protosevich (Thor, I Am Legend) wrote the script.
While Lee has stayed busy these last few years, helming projects like the documentaries ‘Kobe Doin’ Work,’ and ‘If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise,’ which is the follow-up to his acclaimed documentary ‘When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,’ his last feature film was the 2008 war film ‘Miracle At St. Anna.’
In November 2009, it was reported that Dreamworks, Steven Spielberg and Will Smith had stepped back from doing a remake of Oldboy.
