- OLDBOY
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| Elizabeth Olsen |
As the upcoming remake prepares for production in New York
in Lousiana, lead actress Elizabeth Olsen spoke with Empire about what fans can
expect from Spike Lee's approach to both Park Chan-wook's original Oldboy and
the source material manga by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi.
"It's not trying to redo the film – it's coming at it
from a different view," Olsen says, likening the relationship between the
two films to the Swedish Let the Right One In and the American Let Me In.
"As well as focusing on the primary source of the Korean film, for our
film there's also the Japanese Manga, so we're using the primary source of the
illustrated novel, really."
Lee's cast also includes Josh Brolin, Sharlto Copley and
Samuel L. Jackson and offers a western setting to the plot.
"It's going to be a different story," Olsen says,
"just because, one, it takes place in a non-descript city in America, and,
two, it's ten years later, so technology is different. It's practicalities that
have had to change."
Oldboy features a screenplay by Mark Protosevich and is
produced by Mandate Pictures.
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