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Twitch Site: Dragon Tattoo's Rooney Mara Considered for Oldboy
posted on by Egan Loo
The film website Nobuaki Minegishi's manga Old Boy. According to Twitch, Mara has not yet been given a formal offer for this character, who is renamed Marie in the American version.
Mara played the crucial role of Mark Zuckerberg's girlfriend Erica in The Social Network, and she will next appear as the title character in American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (David Fincher directed both films.)
Director Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X) slated to play the male lead.
Mandate Pictures is developing the project with producers Nathan Kahane is serving as executive producer.
The trade magazine Variety earlier described the Korean film's story about "a man who's kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years. When he's finally released and begins looking into the reason for his captivity, he soon finds out that his kidnapper has even more torturous plans for him." (The original manga has the protagonist imprisoned for a different number of years and does not have the Korean film's added plot twist ending.)
told the Film School Rejects website that Spielberg's team would be adapting the original Old Boy manga, and not remaking Park's film version.
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