Director Kim Jee-woon, who recently marked his Hollywood debut with the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle “The Last Stand,” says his next project will likely be a live-action remake of the Japanese anime Jin-Roh, only this time set in Korea.
All I can say is that this stands a very good chance of being fucking awesome.
You can see some of the original Japanese anime at Dailymotion.
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Cloud Atlas was a flop. The Last Stand recently opened at 6 million and now sits at 10.5 million so they’ll need about 20 more million to break even. I can see both Japanese and Korean people both boycotting this probable movie with the way things are going between the two countries.
I’m seriously considering going to see that movie, despite the fact that it has Johnny Knoxville in it. That’s how much I love Kim Jiwoon’s works (I’ll probably netflix it… Maybe.). I mean, I loved every movie he has made from Tale of Two Sisters all the way up to his segment in ‘A Report on the Extinction of Humans’. I would love to see him make his way in Hollywood, but I would love it even more if he gets to do what he wants to do without interference.
“The Last Stand” was one of those multiple personality flicks which couldn’t decide if it was serious action or a comedy, and sported more plot holes than Swiss cheese. It was on the base last weekend. I did like the creative geography of southwest Arizona, though, which reminded me of that large canyon in Iowa in the recent “Star Trek” flick.
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