- OLDBOY
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| Sharlto Copley |
MTV News caught up with Sharlto Copley and asked him about
the upcoming Spike Lee remake, Old Boy, in which he plays the villain.
"They've been very true to the spirit of it. It's dark,
it's gritty. They're not sort of softening it, which to me was important. And
I'm very excited about that movie. I'm very excited about working with Spike
and with Josh," Copley said. "I think it's going to be a film that is
really worth redoing and make that idea that is such an unbelievable story
accessible to maybe more people than it was originally."
A remake of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, the film focuses on a
man named Joe (Dae-su Oh in the original) who is captured and imprisoned in a
hotel room for over two decades (15 years in the original) with no
understanding as to why. When he is suddenly released, he's told that he has
just four days to determine the reason for his imprisonment.
Originally a late '90's manga series by Garon Tsuchiya and
Nobuaki Minegishi, the American version will apparently, as in that series, go
by that two word title rather that the single world Oldboy that Chan-wook's
version used.
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