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Oldboy’s Park Confirms No Involvement in Spike Lee’s Remake

Posted by Rê on 5th March 2013 at 2:59 pm

The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog asked South Korean director Chan-wook Park about Spike Lee’s remake of his Oldboy film in an interview posted on Sunday:

Has Spike Lee approached you about his remake of “Oldboy”?

I’m involved in the film as much as how I’d like if I were doing a remake of another filmmaker’s film, how I’d like that original filmmaker to be involved in my remake. That, in other words, is nothing. I’m not involved. I don’t really want to know anything about it. I want to close my eyes and close my ears to the remake. I want to go to the cinema as soon as it’s out and I want to be amazed.

Park’s live-action film is itself an adaptation of Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi’s Oldboy manga. Lee shot his remake with Josh Brolin (Milk, Men in Black 3), actress Elizabeth Olsen (Silent House, Martha Marcy May Marlene), Sharlto Copley (District 9, The A-Team), Samuel L. Jackson (Jungle Fever, Pulp Fiction, The Avengers), and James Ransone (Sinister, Inside Man, The Next Three Days) last fall.

The remake will open in the United States on October 11.

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Elizabeth talks about her ‘Oldboy’ co-star Josh Brolin

Posted by Rê on 9th February 2013 at 2:56 pm

Elizabeth Olsen said she had a great time working on Oldboy

Elizabeth Olsen has said Josh Brolin has become like a brother to her after working on Oldboy together. The Liberal Arts star – the younger sister of fashionista twins Mary-Kate and Ashley – worked with the No Country For Old Men star on Spike Lee’s English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean thriller.

Elizabeth said: “We had the best time, that was so much fun. Spike Lee is one of the best men I’ve ever met, loved him as person and as director, and Josh has become like a big brother to me. “Working with Sam Jackson for like, a little bit, was so fun. That was an amazing experience and I can’t wait to see what comes of it in October.”

But while Josh has spoken of how intense he found it working on the violent revenge movie, Elizabeth insists her role involved “nothing too crazy for me”.

The Martha Marcy May Marlene star – who is up for the EE Bafta Rising Star Award this year – also worked with Dakota Fanning last year on coming of age movie Very Good Girls. She said: “I loved working with Dakota. I felt like she was a little sister to me. I felt like her wiser, older sister. But it was fun to be a little bit of a fool for a film, and let playful be the material.”

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Elizabeth Olsen Interview on Liberal Arts, Oldboy & Therese Raquin

Posted by Rê on 23rd December 2012 at 4:26 am

Elizabeth Olsen chats about her university experiences, Twilight, making mix-tapes, & filming period drama Therese Raquin & Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy.

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‘Oldboy’ to Hit Theaters in October 2013

Posted by Rê on 21st October 2012 at 1:23 am

The remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 South Korean box-office hit stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley and Samuel L. Jackson.

FilmDistrict will release Spike Lee’s Oldboy, a remake of the 2003 South Korean blockbuster, on Oct. 11, 2013.
Oldboy, headlining Josh Brolin as an advertising executive who is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement for unknown reasons, also stars Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley and Samuel L. Jackson.

When the ad executive is released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment, only to find that he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment. His quest for revenge leads him into an ill-fated relationship with a young social worker (Olsen) and ultimately to an illusive man (Copley) who allegedly holds the key to his salvation.
As of now, the movie has the weekend to itself.
The South Korean film, directed by Park Chan-wook, won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It grossed north of $14 million worldwide.

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[Photos] Lizzie on the set of ‘Oldboy’

Posted by Rê on 21st October 2012 at 1:15 am

Finally, some new pictures of Lizzie. She was spotted on October 19 shooting Oldboy.

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Elizabeth Olsen: The Little Sister with Big Plans

Posted by Rê on 10th October 2012 at 3:09 am

Actress Elizabeth Olsen tells Robbie Collin about emerging from the shadow of her famous siblings – Mary-Kate and Ashley – in the new film comedy Liberal Arts.

“I feel like I destroy the possibility of me ever playing a sexy high-school girl whenever I open my mouth,” says Elizabeth Olsen, while doing just that.
We are in an antechamber in the fashionably decorated offices of a public relations firm in the West End of London and Olsen, who is 23 but could pass for anything between 16 and 30, is pouring peppermint tea into a mug perched on a vintage leather storage trunk. Her dark brown hair falls in curls around her face, which looks as round and appetising as a wheel of Edam.

Her voice flits between a Valley girl drawl and an urbane Manhattan croak, and every so often she breaks up a long sentence with raised inflections and little pauses? As if she wants to make sure you’re following? Before eventually landing on a full stop.
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