You've got to be f--king kidding me.
We've just survived a close call with that Oldboy remake (thanks to Justin Lin keeping the project on a stand still for all the time he was attached to it, and now it seems to be indefinitely stalled), and now another one of Park Chan-wook's revenge trilogy is getting the Hollywood treatment.
The news actually came pretty under the radar, mentioned only briefly in a lengthy article on The Boston Globe about Charlize Theron's new movie Sleepwalking:
[Theron will] also produce and star in a remake of "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance," the final installment of a mondo-violent trilogy by Korean director Park Chan-wook.
The original Lady Vengeance was a much-anticipated follow-up to the international hit Oldboy, and told the story of a kind-hearted and angelic woman who served a very long prison sentence for a murder the didn't commit. When she's released, she enacts a brutal and downright unsettling revenge plan on the real murderer.
Not much else is known about the remake, and as far as we know, this is the first mention of it.
Nothing against Charlize Theron, but maybe I just understand how these actors decide on these things. "That's a great movie. I want to play that character. Let's make it happen!" Is that all there is to it?
