{"id":6730,"date":"2010-01-07T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2018-11-13T23:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T04:50:34","slug":"sympathy-for-mr-vengeance-remake-in-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/07\/sympathy-for-mr-vengeance-remake-in-works\/","title":{"rendered":"SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE Remake In Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With the middle installment of Korean director Chan-Park Wook’s thematic “Vengeance Trilogy”, Oldboy<\/strong>, seeming to get all the attention, I find that the first film of the three, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, to be an under-rated classic in its own right. And now, it has become the latest film from the director to be targeted for an American remake.<\/p>\n

Warner Brothers has picked up the rights to remake the film and have hired Brian Tucker to pen an English language version of the film, according to Screen Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I first saw Sympathy For Mr Vengeance<\/strong> at a film festival in 2003 when it was making the US film festival rounds and was impressed with its powerful story of two men locked into a cycle of murderous revenge. Oldboy and the Vengeance Trilogy’s third installment, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance<\/strong> may be stronger films visually, butI think this version remains the strongest of the three thematically.<\/p>\n

Previously, both Oldboy<\/strong> and Sympathy For Lady Vengeance<\/strong> have been optioned by Hollywood for remakes and both projects have failed to materialize. Steven Spielberg and Will Smith vision for Oldboy<\/strong> was derailed<\/a> by rights issues involving the original magna the film was based on. Back in the spring of 2008, Charlize Theron announced<\/a> that she had optioned Sympathy For Lady Vengeance<\/strong> for a remake in which she was going to produce and star. However, since then there has been no word on the project, so it has probably died a quiet death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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