Spielberg and Smith Lock Up Oldboy based on the manga comic book series... June 25th 2009 09:56pm | Posted by: Michael Stevens, HNR Senior Editor Director Steven Spielberg and actor Will Smith continue to develop an adaptation of Old Boy, based on the Japanese manga. DreamWorks, in one of its first moves in the wake of its November separation from Paramount, secured remake rights from Mandate, which remains involved in the project. The original Old Boy comic book was written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya as the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, followed by Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. In 2003, Old Boy was adapted into a Cannes award winning Korean feature by director Park Chan-wook. In 2005, Dark Horse Comics purchased rights for an English translation of the book, with the entire series composed of a total of eight volumes. Premise of Old Boy follows 'Oh Dae-Su',locked up in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, he finds himself trapped in a web of conspiracy, with his quest for vengeance sidetracked after falling for an attractive sushi chef. "...Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn't know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set and the voices of his jailers. In time, he lost himself. He changed, transformed himself into something else, something hard, something lethal. Suddenly one day, his incarceration ends, again without explanation. He is sedated, stuffed inside a trunk and dumped in a park. When he awakes, he is free to reclaim what's left of his life . . . and what's left is revenge..." Source: SneakPeek.Ca In: Movie News |Visit the HNR Forums

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