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Twitch Site: Clive Owen Offered Villain Role in Oldboy Remake
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The Twitch film website reported on Friday that actor Clive Owen (Intruders, Children of Men, Sin City) has been offered the villain role of Oldboy. Owen had previously worked with Lee on the film The Inside Man.
Actor Colin Firth (The King's Speech, A Single Man, Love Actually) was previously turned it down.
Director Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X) Nobuaki Minegishi's manga Old Boy.
The industry news source Variety reported that Mandate Pictures is still filling its female led role for the film since Rooney Mara (The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake) ed on it.
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.) Lee also said that "the ending will be something that the audiences will all be... very happy with. In fact, some may consider it to be a bit darker."
Dark Horse Comics publishes the manga in North America.
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