Two good things could come out of a remake. The first is that more people are exposed to Oldboy, meaning there would probably be a lot more people seeking out the original, which is a fantastic movie as far as I’m concerned and deserves all the attention it can get.

The second is that a manga adaptation (Which is what Spielburg wanted to do.) might be good for all we know. At the very least, I would have gone to see it just for interest sake. Even if it bombed, I’d love to see all the spectacular ways they screwed it up.

Hollywood is always worried about its target audience (i.e. “girls like romance, guys like violence, and everybody wants the good guy to kick ass”), so the movies always fit into these narrow constraints. Spielberg is a professional: he gives the people what they want, takes their money, and everybody’s happy. I guarantee he’d never try to cross the boundaries of what’s acceptable. And that’s the essence of the whole film.

thank the film lords this movie is not gonna be made. will smith + spielberg doing oldboy = interesting ? forget about that.they are both talented and did good stuff, but they would never remake the squid scene with a real squid

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( perhaps that’s the real reason for cancelling the movie ? smith didn’t want to eat a live squid )

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everybody knows spielberg isn’t doing anymore groundbreaking stuff these days, at least not in the last movies he did ( and I still love him. he made a load of awesome films I adore : duel, jaws, ET, Close Encounters, Indiana Jones – except nr 4 -,empire of the sun,hook,jurassic park, saving private ryan, minority report and masterpiece schindler’s list ) Nothing wrong with that, but Oldboy is, like stated before here, a masterpiece. A personal, very powerful, original and emotional movie. There is no way you could make this better ( unless perhaps you would take such a COMPLETELY different and unique/original take on it. but we know hollywood doesn’t seem to be capable of that ) and I don’t really like the concept of remakes anyway (unless it’s about updating an outdated movie that was made 50 years ago for example). do some effort if you don’t like watching a movie in another language or with people from different cultures.

Stop trying to capitalize on actually good films and tarnishing that film's reputation with shallow hollywood imitation.

Stop trying to capitalize on actually good films and tarnishing that film's reputation with shallow hollywood imitation.

Stop trying to capitalize on actually good films and tarnishing that film's reputation with shallow hollywood imitation.

Glad to hear at least some things are off limits.

Hollywood, GROW UP AND TAKE RISKS, we enjoy creative, new films. See also Harry Potter. Chumps.

Not to mention the fact that if anybody has actually read the comic, they’d discover that the original movie had about as much to do with it as the Dragonball movie did to its source material. Meaning, if they were really taking a different approach to the source material it could have been very good and very different.