Money Today is reporting — sit down for this — that a Hollywood remake is in the works of Park Chan-wook’s JSA. Gladiator writer/producer David Franzoni will direct the remake, the setting of which will be moved from the DMZ separating North and South Korea to the U.S.-Mexico border (!).
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It’s hard to see how setting it on the US-Mexican border could possibly capture the tension of the DMZwhich made the movie so powerful, of course…. I think that’s one movie I’ll skip.
Is this a joke?
Is this a joke?
I wish it were. I wish it were.
Marmot, were you doing an all-nighter tonight or what?
I’m still waiting for the Old Boy remake…btw is it officially Old Boy, Oldboy, or OLDBOY?
What are they thinking? Mexico - U.S. I dont’ think this movie will possible succeed.
Why US-Mexico border? Why not Canada-US border? Either way, it just won’t work. It MUST be a joke.
The news that JSA would be remade is a couple years old. But this new wrinkle makes it an unattractive movie date.
Curious is right about the lack of tension. And the irony of the two groups of sworn enemies just wouldn’t be there when Mexico and los Estados Unidos are allies.
Now, if anyone in Hollywood is reading this, I could see a situatin in Guantanamo Bay.
No, wait. No. This should somehow be brought back to Korea’s DMZ. I know that USFK doesn’t control P’anmunj??m anymore (right?), but you could make it retro, like in the 1980s or something.
Come on, Franzoni, ride the Korean wave all the way to the bank!
Holy retarded. This new wave of American remakes of Asian films can’t go any further…
This is simply unbelievable bad judgement. If they liked the idea so much but want to change the ploting to that degree, why not just use the original as a starting point for a different story!?
Contrary to most posters here, I think the idea will work. A border patrol agent who shoots and kills an illegal Mexican, later finds out that her great,great parent actually came from Mexico. She is killing her own people, just to make a living. That will bring some understanding to U.S.-Mexico border problems.
You can also make a subplot about some border patrol agents befriending Mexicans, but later have to kill them when things get heat up. Then, they feel guilty about it and commit suicide or overdose.
I can see many parallel between JSA and the border situation. With some intense close-ups and gut-wrenching emotion, the movie could hit the national core. It may even end the border vigilantism.
You’ve got to read this juicy piece.
http://www.scrappleface.com/MT.....02167.html