{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mrvengeance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6733\" title=\"mrvengeance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mrvengeance-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>With the middle installment of Korean director Chan-Park Wook&#8217;s thematic &#8220;Vengeance Trilogy&#8221;, <strong>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<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/news\/production\/warner-bros-boards-remake-rights-to-sympathy-for-mr-vengeance\/5009446.article\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I first saw <strong>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&#8217;s third installment, <strong>Sympathy For Lady Vengeance<\/strong> may be stronger films visually, butI think this version remains the strongest of the three thematically.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, both <strong>Oldboy<\/strong> and <strong>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 <strong>Oldboy<\/strong> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/10\/oldboy-remake-hammered-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">derailed<\/a> by rights issues involving the original magna the film was based on. Back in the spring of 2008, Charlize Theron <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/13\/sympathy-for-lady-theron\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that she had optioned <strong>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":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">With the middle installment of Korean director Chan-Park Wook&#8217;s thematic &#8220;Vengeance Trilogy&#8221;, Oldboy, seeming to get all the attention, I find that the first film of the three, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, to be an <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/07\/sympathy-for-mr-vengeance-remake-in-works\/\" title=\"SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE Remake In Works\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6731,"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":[2355,8,2354],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chan-park-wook","9":"tag-remake","10":"tag-sympathy-for-mr-vengeance"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","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=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}