Warner Bros. has purchased the rights to remake Park Chan-Wook’s earlier film, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Following the news that Smith’s Oldboy remake has fallen through, the erstwhile Fresh Prince has returned to more familiar territory – finding an Oscar-baiting role to alternate around his action projects.
With an I Am Legend prequel in development, and potential sequels to I, Robot and Hancock in the works, Smith has set his sites on [...]

  
 
Steven Spielberg’s proposed Oldboy adaptation has been pronounced “dead” by latinoreview.
   The moot project, which was to star Will Smith, hit snags in negotiations between Korean studio Mandate and Spielberg’s Dreamworks; the American media giant simply walked away rather than barter any further.
   Originally a Japanese manga comic by Nobuaki Minegeshi and Garon Tsuchiya, Oldboy [...]