Denzel Washington To Star In US Remake Of Kim Ji-Woon’s A BITTERSWEET LIFE

[shadowfax.livejournal.com]

No word yet on who will direct but word is that Denzel Washington is slated to star in a US remake of Kim Ji-Woon’s A Bittersweet Life.  The project has been in development at Fox and it’s hard to imagine them hitting the same tone as the original with Washington in the lead, he is just such a different style of actor than original star Lee Byung-Hun.

 

Denzel Washington Coming Back to Unstoppable and Remaking A Bittersweet Life?

You wait all week for a Denzel Washington story and then two come along at once… so don’t say I’m not offering you value for money. Look: there’s even a double-Denzel picture at the top of the post.

The first piece is this: Variety are reporting that Denzel Washington, having just formally declined a role in Tony Scott’s Unstoppable, is now again circling the role. And the second is more interesting: a rather wild story at Twitch, which cites no source, indicates that Denzel Washington will be taking the lead in a US remake of the South Korean thriller A Bittersweet Life.
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[cinis.livejournal.com]

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

Srsly, my heart cannot take Oldboy and A Bittersweet Life remade together. :(

[aici-rua.livejournal.com]

ANOTHER REMAKE????

WHAT ARE ALL THE CREATIVE PEOPLE DOING IN THE WORLD???

Get your butts to Hollywood rn and make something original.

[finchburg.livejournal.com]

*adds Bittersweet Life to Netflix queue*

ETA: WTF they don't even have it on Netflix :(

Which other Korean movies should I be adding bbs?

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

All of Park Chan Wook's films. Srsly.

[finchburg.livejournal.com]

Gurl that's been done for a while. I still need to watch Lady V though, the disk is just sitting around right now.

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

Lady V was a gorrrrgeous film.

I most def rec A Bittersweet Life too.

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Kim Ki-duk's movies.

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

:/ i hope it turns out well, but in my experience with these types of remakes...

[jrock-obsessed.livejournal.com]

Oh bloody hell.

[bulgocrazyi.livejournal.com]

Please don't. That's like my favorite movie.

[adiscodance.livejournal.com]

what? no! Why?

guh lee byung hyun, you are so fine! I just watched The Good The bad The Weird on my flight home from Thailand. good gravy.
it's only like two months now until iris.

[unreal.livejournal.com]

Hollywood be original for once and don't f*uck up great movies.

[paperlet.livejournal.com]

I watched the first ten minutes of that movie and never finished it...I probably should though the plot was interesting. Hollywood is just going to jack it up haha

[nene718.livejournal.com]

Um, it's fucking Denzel Washington. At least they're using a good actor this time. And he doesn't just take any role so it'll probably have a good director, producer, etc.

[loveandetc.livejournal.com]

ia. i trust his judgment, i'm sure this movie will be well-done even if it doesn't have the same "tone" as the original.

[gogoparty.livejournal.com]

GODDAMN IT it's Lee Byung HUN, not Lee Byung HYUN people!!!

[shadowfax.livejournal.com]

Ikr! Gosh. I can't believe I didn't notice that D: *fixed* ^^

[loveandetc.livejournal.com]

i fucking love denzel washington

[thenylonkid.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[vasedelalune.livejournal.com]

No thank you.

[kanaala.livejournal.com]

i don't know the Korean movie.. lol
but i like Denzel Washington as an actor so i'm excited for the American one XD