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Twitch Site: Mandate Wants Josh Brolin as Oldboy Lead
posted on by Daryl Bunao
The movie news website Shinichi Gotō (Oh Dae-su in the 2003 Korean adaptation), a civilian who struggles to find the reason why he was held captive in a private prison for over a decade.
Brolin was nominated for best ing actor in the 2008 biographical movie Milk. Brolin's previous roles include former U.S. President George W. Bush in W., Vietnam War veteran Llewelyn Moss in No Country for Old Men, and most recently, the Western outlaw Tom Chaney in True Grit.
The Twitch website also reported that Oldboy scriptwriter Mark Protosevich (Thor, I Am Legend) will be using both the 1996 Japanese manga and the 2003 Korean movie adaptation as references. The site added, "roughly twenty percent of the Protosevich script is entirely new material."
Written by licensed the manga in 2005 and released all eight volumes over the next two years.
Korean director Park Chan-wook (t Security Area, I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay) directed the manga's first movie adaptation in 2003. The film, led by actor Choi Min-Sik (Shiri, I Saw the Devil), went on to win multiple international awards including the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Mandated announced that American director Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X) has signed onto the planned American version of Oldboy.
[Via Comic Book Movie]
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