News
Oldboy Remake's 1st TV Ad, Prequel Web Comic Unveiled
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Movie distribution company FilmDistrict began streaming the first television spot for Spike Lee's remake of Chan-wook Park's live-action Oldboy film on Tuesday.
Additionally, video game news website IGN launched a three-part web comic series "The Devil's Eyes" on Tuesday by Jason Badower and Rich Silverman that will gradually reveal "a vicious character movie fans will meet in the film."
The film premiered at the AMC Lincoln Square in New York on Monday where audiences reportedly squirmed in their seats from the film's graphic violence and audibly gasped during the climatic twist. An interview with the film's lead actor Josh Brolin revealed he'd called Korean director Park Chan Wook to talk about the differences between the remake and the original.
"The original is very story-driven whereas this one is more on performance. It gets more into the guy in the makeshift prison, and gets more into the psychology of how selfish this guy is. It was written differently by [Mark] Protosevich, and when I called director Park [to ask what he thought of the remake], he said, 'I don't give a f---.' "
Brolin paused and laughed before continuing, “He didn't quite say that, but he said to just make our own Oldboy, and not his."
Lee shot his remake with Brolin (Milk, Men in Black 3), actress Elizabeth Olsen (Silent House, Martha Marcy May Marlene), Sharlto Copley (District 9, The A-Team), Samuel L. Jackson (Jungle Fever, Pulp Fiction, The Avengers), and James Ransone (Sinister, Inside Man, The Next Three Days) last fall.
Park's film is itself an adaptation of Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi's Oldboy manga, which follows a man seeking the kidnapper who imprisoned him for years.
Lee's remake will open in select theaters on November 27.
