Old Boy Remake: UPDATE!!

About a month and a half ago I wrote an article asking "when is it too soon to make a remake". In that article I also questioned why is it that movie studios feel the need to take already great films and remake them into watered down pieces of crap. Hollywood's latest victim was set to a be re-imaging of the Japanese manga Old Boy (an adaptation of this already happened in 2003 with Chan-wook Park's awesome film Old Boy); two giants of the movie industry, Steven Spielberg & Will Smith, were set to head the project. Thankfully, someone listened to their instinct (although, I'd like to imagine they read my post) and the remake has been cancelled!! Now, let's just hope the remake of Let The Right One In falls through too. Below is the story they're running over at AintItCool.com about this:

Will Smith and Setven Spielberg's OLDBOY project has gone belly-up, according to Latino Review. The film was being spun as a direct adaptation of Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya's manga as opposed to a "remake" of Park Chan-wook's 2003 feature film.
According to a trusted source…

…It’s DEAD!

Mandate and DreamWorks didn’t see eye to eye therefore DreamWorks has apparently walked away.

No Spielberg.

No Will Smith.

THEY’RE OUT!

Hence no stateside Oldboy remake…or whatever you want to call it.

(the original post can be found here)