Twitch Site: Colin Firth Offered Villain Role in Oldboy Remake

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The Twitch film website reported on Friday that actor Colin Firth (The King's Speech, A Single Man, Love Actually) has been offered the villain role of Adrian in Spike Lee's remake of Park Chan-Wook's live-action film Oldboy. Twitch noted that Firth was at one point slated to play a role in Chan-wook's English-language film Stoker, but that did not work out.

Director Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X) signed onto Mandate Pictures' American remake of Oldboy in July, and Josh Brolin is slated to play the male lead. Park's film was itself inspired by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi's manga Old Boy.

Last month, a writer for the entertainment trade magazine 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) passed on it.

Mandate Pictures is developing the project with producers Doug Davison and Roy Lee (The Ring, Dark Water [2005], Death Note and Godzilla remake plans) of Vertigo Entertainment and Lee's 40 Acres & A Mule Productions. Mark Protosevich (Thor, I Am Legend) wrote a script, and Mandate Pictures President 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.)

Dark Horse Comics publishes the manga in North America.

cr: animenewsnetwork

Comments

[grapewhine.livejournal.com]

No.

[devilstay.livejournal.com]

why tho? Colin Firth is cheese in the cheese cake.

[grapewhine.livejournal.com]

No. :(

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

No is THE perfect answer... actually it's the only one

[devilstay.livejournal.com]

Colin Firth in my OMONA! And Korean movies. I love the man tbh. :)

(why does the word 'movie' keep getting red line underneath it, when I type it out? It's a real word).

[es2pido.livejournal.com]

He's fine, I guess.

Can't wait for the remake!! Old Boy was absolutely epic!

[es2pido.livejournal.com]

(but seeing My Sassy Girl and The Lakehouse... IDK...)

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

King Firth in my Omona? what?

(http://s1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc379/LydziStark/Jane%20Austen/?action=view&current=Unf.gif)

[unreal.livejournal.com]

They can pick out any actor they want and I would still say no.

[grapewhine.livejournal.com]

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[yangguifei17.livejournal.com]

truth. why is this being remade why.

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

First of all: NO
Second: wasn't the role offered to Christian Bale?
3rd: No
4rth: what part of "we don't need a remake there's already a AMAZING movie" don't you understand
5th: Hollywood, are you lacking creativity that much you need to remake stuff?
6: NO

[magic-jungle.livejournal.com]

Colin Firth is too good for a remake.

[anconeous.livejournal.com]

THIS.

[xkeirafanx.livejournal.com]

My first thought to be honest.

[mo-chan-tf.livejournal.com]

mte

[hugtimes.livejournal.com]

the remake is going to be rubbish anyway so who cares if it's firth?
atleast i'll have someone to fawn over i guess.

[hellafun.livejournal.com]

colin firth good god i would tap that unf

[ghost-whisper.livejournal.com]

All I see, and all I care about is mention of a Death Note remake. Please, for the love of God, don't fuck that one up.

...Well, ok, I'm also totally up for seeing Colin Firth. :)

[xkeirafanx.livejournal.com]

Colin Firth in my omona *Q*

No honestly, I'd watch it, but I know I won't like it even if it's him. The movie shall just not be remade and Firth is too good for a cheap and bad remake of such a brilliant movie.

Do me a favor Firth and decline. I don't wish your brilliancy to be assosiated with such a cinematic disgrace.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Colin Firth is a fantastic actor so he'll do good but I have no hopes for this remake.

[uledy.livejournal.com]

i do not support this movie AT ALL.... korea has some of the best revenge stories out there... and hollywood will surely kill it ㅠ_ㅠ

[lil-rach-angel.livejournal.com]

Colin Firth would be interesting to see as the villian. Maybe that means the villian would actually get more screen time compared to the original. I thought he was a little flat when he did appear. *puts on protection gear in case she'd be beaten*

While I'm not a huge fan of remakes (Oh lord I imagine this will be terrible, but Firth considering it gives me hope) it does allow for the original to have another exposure since there will be curious people who will check out the Korean Old Boy. It's how I wound up watching the original of The Ring since I didn't have a clue it existed thanks to the US's "we're afraid of subtitles" stance.

[sayakota.livejournal.com]

...isn't he way too old for this role?

[sayakota.livejournal.com]

seriously, though. He's 16 years older than Ji-tae Yu, who was 30 when the film was made ffs.

[diplodorkus.livejournal.com]

Colin Firth? Yes. Old Boy? Yes.

Remake? nonononononononononono.

[hybridchickens.livejournal.com]

why are ppl so against colin firth playing this part? ):

[lyssakim.livejournal.com]

it's nothing against colin firth. it has everything to do with there being a remake of oldboy.

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

I am only going to watch this for Colin Firth.

[proyuri.livejournal.com]

Ugh... :\

[inati.livejournal.com]

do want! if he's in it then the remake will obviously be better than the original tbh.