{"id":15987,"date":"2011-08-29T18:59:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T23:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=15987"},"modified":"2011-08-29T19:02:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T00:02:26","slug":"josh-brolin-to-star-in-spike-lees-oldboy-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/29\/josh-brolin-to-star-in-spike-lees-oldboy-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin To Star In Spike Lee&#8217;s OLDBOY Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JoshBrolin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15988\" title=\"JoshBrolin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JoshBrolin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JoshBrolin.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JoshBrolin-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Josh Brolin has been signed to star in director Spike Lee&#8217;s upcoming <strong>Oldboy<\/strong>. A remake of Korean director Park Chan-Wook\u2018s modern classic revenge tale, Brolin will star as a man mysteriously imprisoned for 15 years and once freed, seeks revenge on those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Protosevich has adapted the original film for this English-language remake, but it is unknown how much of the original story may have been changed. Hopefully he&#8217;ll be keeping the original&#8217;s third act twist as I really can&#8217;t wait to be sitting in a movie theater and watching people react to it.<\/p>\n<p>Brolin has just wrapped his work on the seemingly eternally in production <strong>Men In Black III<\/strong> and will start on director Ruben Fleischer\u2019s crime drama <strong>Gangster Squad<\/strong> next month. He&#8217;ll have a few months free between that and the start of Jason Reitman\u2019s <strong>Labor Day<\/strong> with Kate Winslet in June which is presumably when <strong>Oldboy<\/strong> will shoot.<\/p>\n<p>Well this is certainly better sounding than a remake starring Will Smith and being directed\u00a0 by Steven Spielberg. That version got scotched due to a problem with securing the remake rights. But this version sounds much more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/08\/josh-brolin-to-star-in-spike-lees-oldboy-redo-for-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Academy Award-nominated actor will be starring in Lee&#8217;s remake of the Korean thriller.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/29\/josh-brolin-to-star-in-spike-lees-oldboy-remake\/\" title=\"Josh Brolin To Star In Spike Lee&#8217;s OLDBOY Remake\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[402,1066,671],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-josh-brolin","9":"tag-oldboy","10":"tag-spike-lee"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15987"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=15987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}