I think of all bad remake ideas, the worst I remember was an American remake of the Korean film
Joint Security Area.
Joint Security Area is about an incident at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Yeah.
Of course, the US is apparently trying to remake pretty much every single Korean movie from the past ten years. We already got
The Uninvited (a remake of the excellent
A Tale of Two Sisters),
My Sassy Girl (in which the US remake of the original Korean film graciously was sent to straight-to-DVD-hell),
Mirrors (remake of
Into the Mirrors), and
The Lake House (remake of
Il Mare). Spike Lee is remaking
Oldboy, which I'm actually excited to see simply because I feel like Spike Lee is one of the few US directors who'd have an interesting take on the story. Charlize Theron was going to do a remake of
Lady Vengeance, but I haven't heard much about it recently, though I do think Theron would be an ideal actress for the lead role in that film if it had to be remade. Bong Joon-Ho's
The Host was picked up for a remake a few years ago, but thankfully that one seems to be dead in the water because that's almost as bad of an idea as a US remake of
Joint Security Area, because once again, that movie is pretty much about South Korean culture and politics. Dimension films announced a remake of
The Man From Nowhere recently, which is okay with me because that was unbelievably overrated. Chris Columbus is remaking
Hello Ghost, and the guy who did
Mean Girls is remaking
Castaway on the Moon.
God help them if they ever try to remake
A Bittersweet Life...
... what's that you say? They are
remaking A Bittersweet Life?
Oh, for ****'s sake.
