OH DAE-SU SAYS 'AWW HELL NAW'

I got no problem with a black man in the white house. I'm ecstatic, even. But no black man has ANY right to take that role. Except Billy Dee Williams.

There goes any meaning,subtext,or twists. How long until Akiva Goldsman is announced?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I'm guessing Steven Spielberg lost his film-making cojones after the failure of the masterful "Munich" to connect with the "War of the Worlds" crowd. First Indiana Bores and the Temple of Snooze and now this! Simply put, he's gone on autopilot. American pop cinema has last its master.

I'm gonna sound like Devin for a minute and say that the original still exists and, if anything else, the remake might expose a bunch of new folks to Park's amazing film, so it's not necessarily bad. Added to that is just the morbid curiosity factor - going to see it just so I can witness what Hollywood thinks us dumb Americans just can't deal with.

Who said we hate Will Smith? Speak for yourself pal, for once.

I love Spielberg and I like Will Smith, but I can't see how either of them could do Oldboy right. It's orders of magnitude too dark for both of them. Of course, if they DO do it right, then it would be in the running for the best thing in the history of forever.

I love projects like this because it's easy to think that it's going to be a raging disappointment. And that's because, well, Devin's right. Neither Steven Spielberg nor Will Smith have proven that they're willing to go to the places a story like Oldboy DEMANDS that they go. That said, while it's fairly obvious that the remake is going to be watered down, there's one question that people should ask themselves: What if they pull it off? You don't know what somebody's capable of until they go ahead and do it. If Spielberg and Smith blow this movie, well, it'll only figure, and we'll still have the original. But if they go "there"...well, then. Not only will we get a hell of a film, we'll be blindsided by it. And to be blindsided by a great movie is a special kind of joy. The same kind of joy that made us quote The Departed for months after its release, the same kind of joy that burned Heath Ledger's Joker into our brains (although that was also helped by the fact that it's his second-to-last role). It's easy to love a movie that you've anticipated. To be surprised by a movie is something else entirely. So if this ever gets off the ground, I'll keep my eye on it. If it disappoints, eh, oh well. If Spielberg and Smith nail it, though...well, it's Spielberg and Smith doing Chan Wook-Park. It will blow minds through the back of the theater.

Spielberg blows.

I Am Legend makes me cut Will Smith some slack. Park is my favorite living director at this point. I hate the thought any of his films need another filmmaker to justify them. But at this point, Will Smith, why not? Whatever. Charlize Theron being in Lady Vengeance is worse.

Oh, this is GREAT news! I also heard (and am equally ecstatic about) that Lucas and Ford are set to remake Irreversible, while Ron Howard and Russel Crowe prep Trainspotting [in English this time], and Zemeckis and Hanks finally team up to remake Downfall (I hear Hitler has a 'come to Jesus' moment in that one--oooh, it gives me chills!!!). Stop.

There is no emoticon for how I am feeling!

It's possible, JUST POSSIBLE, that they are approaching this with the best intentions, right? That they're wanting a project that will push both of them in directions they've never been? That's possible right? right? I'm really trying to convince myself here...

this is the worst idea since christianity. seriously. i will kill one of them for this. tell will to hold his horses till the obama biopic comes out. he should be the perfect age by then, but leave the vengeance alone!

I stilllike the ideas of Thomas Jane or Nic Cage in the Oh Dae-Su role, with John Cusack as Lee Wo-Jin. This will never happen, so, don't get all pissy, folks. Spielberg's last project fell through, so, who knows?

Oh Dae-Son Piano.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCK NOOOOOOO! Will Smith has less Balls than Lance Armstrong. He wouldn't do anything remotely to jeopardize his family credibility(which is ridiculous since all his major box office takings would have been hits with or without him).

BREAKING NEWS! With 2/3rds of the leads from "Hancock" persuing remakes of the "Vengeance" trilogy, this means whatshisface from that "Arrested Development" will soon take part in Brett Ratner's "Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance." Ya heard it here first, folks!

I can't wait for their take on the octopus scene!

oldboy- awesome visuals, great acting, kick ass music, and one of the most laugh inducing endings i have seen in a motion picture...ever

I think a robert deniro michael mann sort of thing might have been okay, but the original is just too good.

JRyan- "Ron Howard and Russel Crowe prep Trainspotting [in English this time]" = Comedy gold. Thanks for the morning laugh!

...spielberg is god and devin is a dick, shove your negativity into the hate ridden crevice from which you sprang...

CHUD readers for GARY OLDMAN as Oh Dae-Su!! Let's band together!! Come on, you know he'd be perfect.

I love it! I hope an alien comes down and resolves all the problems and loose ends and everyone lives happily ever after.

Why the hell do we need another (Asian) remake? Why not make something original? With the starpower of spielberg and smith you expect something great right???

My future children are committing suicide in my balls.

Wow! An actual rallying cry where the cyber community can actually make a difference. Folks if there was ever a moment to start a petition this is it. DO NOT REMAKE OLDBOY WITH THIS CREATIVE TEAM! WHY? One has to look at the two recent films of Spielberg/Smith and come to the conclusion that these people have lost the art of enteraning audience. In the end they're just business men. Period. People who love movies definitely know about Old Boy. That film is a cult classic in the very best sense of the phrase. All the elements of the original are so concrete and vivid that remaking it instantly renders the "new version" as an inferior product, no matter how good it may well turn out. The original still packs a wallop! This remake is just not only an ill advised idea but a truly idiotic one. If anyone out there knows the email to spielberg or smith and their respective production offices getting ready to ramp up this aborted fetus please post it so we can flood their mailbox with common sense.

wait, i've been a chewer for a long time, but i thought i was alone in my outright hatred of mr. smith, which has spanned three decades now. this is like a delightful present from one of my favorite web sites!!

I got no real problem with this, simply because I won't go see it. The original is what it is (fucking brilliant) and the odds of this going through production and actually coming out in the near future are pretty small, EVEN with Spielburg and Smith attached. Oh, and whoever said Smith's big hits would be big hits without him as the star is a fucking idiot. I'm not his biggest fan, but Smith is the closest thing to a real Movie Star we have since Tom Cruise torpedoed his own public image- even bigger than Cruise. Smith is unsinkable box office for going on ten years now- if not longer. Discounting his star quality (whatever that may be) is asinine and childish. I don't like Michael Bay movies, but I don't say he doesn't know how to frame a shot or put together a BIG setpiece. I don't really care for contemporary Spielburg either, but I wouldn't discredit his talent. Smith is a pretty decent actor, but he is a Movie Star first and foremost.

re: My future children are committing suicide in my balls HAHAHA, funniest line ever

I never post on anything...BUT THIS IS THE WORST IDEA EVER!!!! Please don't do it! Please. I rather them remake Casablanca. PLEASE DON'T remake this! Chan Wook Park needs to scream 'NO'!!

GREAT IDEA. Now i can watch a homogenized version without those pesky subtitles or cultural motifs. Spielberg is a hack. Smith is a whore.

I hope they cast Will Smith's actual daughter as his character's daughter that he has sex with - that would be awesome!!!

I get that everyone is upset because of the remake, because it is, after all, a remake, but Oldboy? Really. I don't get all the bowing before Oldboy. I watched it at the recommendation of this site, and it was OK, but I wouldn't call it fantastic or a must see. Disturbing twist ending=good, hallway fight scene=good, story=good, overrated=yes. Oh, and it's no where near as gory as I thought it would be. Not that it had to be gory to be good, but Devin prays to Oldboy. I expected to be more impressed. Meh. Oh, and Devin's fat. Just had to throw that in there.

Wait, we hate Will Smith now? Dammit.

I have no problem with remakes. (Maltese Flacon.) I have no problem with Americanizing Asian films. (Magnificent Seven.) I do have a problem with White Bread and Chocolate Milk trying to make a dirty, gritty, nasty revenge flick.

It will run an extra twenty minutes where you find out that the daughter is actually a robot.

I heard they've declared the internet a natural disaster zone after this news.

Two thumbs way up . . . . your ass! SUCKOLA!!

There's really no reason why this should be remade. To feel the stunning impact of the end of Oldboy is such a unique experience. The original deserves to behold this experience. It can only cheapened by a remake. But who knows, Spielberg makes me happier more than he makes me upset (usually extremely fucking upset, for the record), so I guess I just gotta deal with it.

DUMB. This will never fucking happen. And if it does, then shit, I hope nice middle aged couples all over the nation accidently plug the original into their netflix cues expecting some tame I Am Legend bullshit and get their skulls rocked. Oldboy is just too fucking fucked up to remake. Really, who needs to see that story again? Especially by Smith and Spielberg... Jesus. You might as well have said that Ron Howard was directing Jim Carrey in this thing. Isn't incest fucked up? Yeah, it is, get over it. To hold Oldboy as an untouchable masterpiece is to buckle under the lowered expectations of modern cinema. This is going to be fucking hysterical.

in my internet there is no speilberg

sure it has disaster written all over it but what if he surprises us? I give it a 2% chance of happening but what if old age, crystal skull, south park....Something pissed him the hell off and he is like I want shock the whole damn world! I love Oldboy but don't hold it up as untouchable so I'm interested to see if we get evil Steven or a train wreck

This is so not going to be good. The original is a fantastic movie on its own. WHY do directors feel the need to remake an already good movies. I just don't see Will Smith executing the ending to this movie.