Steven Spielberg wants to remake Oldboy.

[Bomby]

Spielberg and Will Smith May Redo Bloody Oldboy | The Underwire from Wired.com

Many of you probably know by now how I feel about remaking movies that are only a few years old simply for the fact that some people are too lazy to read subtitles. Though I also tend to hate it when people overly praise movies that are less than ten years old, I honestly believe that the original Korean version of Oldboy is a modern classic and years from now will be remembered as one of the greatest films of all time.

Still, even if a remake of Oldboy in America is inevitable, I'm pretty sure that the only director suited for the job is David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club).

[Valigarmander]

Here's hoping we can make a good remake of an Eastern film for once in a long while.

[Bomby]

The Departed was good, but that's because Scorsese was the right kind of director suited for the film. Spielberg just isn't right for Oldboy.

[Deepfake]

Fincher is awesome IMO, I'd love to see his take on Oldboy.

After Spielburg maimed Kubrick's A.I., I can whole-heartedly agree he's not to be trusted with anyone else's films.

[Calamity Panfan]

Goddammit who keeps letting steven spielberg use the movie camera

[Deepfake]

I loled

[Bomby]

Steven Spielberg is actually a very talented director when he wants to be.* But he's not right for Oldboy.

* = emphasis on "when he wants to be"

[Sean P Kelly]

Will Smith's Oldboy is Actually Based on the Graphic Novel « FirstShowing.net

[Bomby]

So was Park Chan-Wook's.

[Rainbow Dash]

Why do they insist on calling them graphic novels anyway

[Bomby]

Because they're much longer and usually more involving than the 99 cent serials from Marvel, DC, etc. Also, they have an end in sight.

[Sean P Kelly]

In a nutshell:

• Comic Book - The magazine-style volumes you get at any corner store
• Graphic Novel - A complete comic story bound together and usually found in bookstores or comic book speciality shops

BTW, there have been Graphic Novels released that complete entire series of Marvel and DC comics (one of the most well known I could think of is the "Maximum Carnage" storyline for Spider-Man)

[Bomby]

Yeah, I didn't mean to knock Marvel and DC, because they definitely have produced longer and more complicated works than the 99 cent serials that I was associating them with.