Alicia Malone
Though he hasn’t had any luck getting a sequel to “Inside Man” up, Spike Lee’s not going to go hungry by sounds. Twitch reports that the legendary filmmaker behind such classics as “Do the Right Thing” and “Malcolm X” is in talks to direct a remake of Asian masterpeice “Old Boy”.
The site says :
Word of a US remake of the Park Chan-Wook revenge classic first surfaced in 2008 with word that both Steven Spielberg (in some capacity) and Will Smith were eyeing the project and now it appears to finally be moving ahead.
The film is set up at Mandate with Doug Davison and Roy Lee producing and Mark Protosevich (Thor, I Am Legend) writing the script.
Lee is a shocking but intriguing prospect to direct this material and a damn sight more interesting than most of the director´s whose names have been floated as possibilities over the years. As for Smith, there´s no word yet if he is still involved but the man did just refuse the lead role of Tarantino´s Django Unchained, which would suggest he´s got something else in the works.
Whaddyathink? Spike a good match for “Oldboy”?
