I know the lot of you think Magnolia Pictures' Korean monster flick The Host is a masterpiece, but I'm going to stand firm in my belief that the film is not only overrated, but incredibly flawed. The idea of remaking the film sounds like a good idea to me, especially if they can find a way to differentiate it from CLOVERFIELD. We can debate this all day, but I know have a wild card in the fact that Universal Pictures just tapped the awesome Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean) to produce the creature feature. Read on for the skinny and share your thoughts below.
Universal Pictures and Gore Verbinski will remake the 2006 Bong Joon-ho-directed Korean thriller "The Host," with commercials director Fredrik Bond making his feature helming debut and Mark Poirier ("Smart People") to pen the script.
Story follows a town terrorized by a giant mutant squidlike creature hatched by toxins that flow into a nearby river from a military base. When the creature grabs a little girl, her dysfunctional family must band together to rescue her.
Verbinski will produce with Vertigo's Roy Lee and Doug Davison, along with Paul Brooks.
The film, originally titled "Gwoemul," did record-breaking business in its theatrical run in South Korea.
Bond has directed campaigns for Nike, Adidas and Levi's. He and Verbinski had been looking for a project to do together, and Bond said he embraced the opportunity to mix a larger-than-life monster with a heartfelt family drama.
"It processes a few genres together, and visually it feels close to the stuff I've made over the last few years in commercials, the tonality of humor and the scale," Bond said.
Verbinski set up the project through Blind Wink Prods., the company he formed at Universal, where he is developing to direct an adaptation of the vidgame "Bioshock."
"I'm going to stand firm in my belief that the film is not only overrated, but incredibly flawed."
Finally, I found someone else on the interwebs who agrees.
"The Host" was overrated. It's not bad, and I like the creature, but it was boring at times, and I kept trying to figure out what was so "great" about the movie.
Personally I am getting tired of zombies, big monsters, and teen PG-13 slasher/vampire movies in general. I think horror in general needs a remake of sorts in North America. Stop plundering other countries for the runoff from their success and maybe create something original.
I don't have all the answers of course, but here is at least one suggestion:
What is scariest about the world today? Take whatever that is for you and transform it into modern horror. There is no evolution in a genre that just repeats itself over and over in slightly different ways.
It doesn't matter if the film was good, bad, shitty, or a masterpiece. It is flawed but I still respect. In fact, I respect it enough to say "hollywood shouldn't perpetuate it's creative bankruptcy and it should NOT remake another fucking Asian film!" Are you guys retarded? Who cares if you don't like the film, don't support remakes! wtf dude.
Wow, they really can't make anything original anymore can they? It started with remaking things 20 years after the original. Now it's remaking movies a year after the original... This is turning sad.
Off Course, now that makes sense, it's flawed, duh... pretty much like... wait for it... every movie outside US Borders? I believe i should start a movie school on out to do movies... on every country, on every continent... please we all need your teachings... piece of s****
Rollstuhlwolf, you say " I am getting tired of zombies, big monsters, and teen PG-13 slasher/vampire movies....What is scariest about the world today?Take whatever that is for you and transform it into modern horror."
i go to the movies to get away from Terrorism, real life day to day shit. if this movie is done well, then i'm in. if it's going to be an another embarrassment, then no.
The Host was good but in an Asian sense. It was interesting, but nowhere near Cloverfield. Large monster-movies have a huge market. Instead of another lame ass King Kong or Godzilla movie (which they cant do right anymore) - why not re-envision The Host, and upgrade it a bit. I think this is a good move.
this is pretty hillarious considering the obvious politcal commentary regarding the U.S.
either way, i loved this movie... and could care less if it is remade, usually remakes just make more people see the original, or make people try and impress friends because they saw the original first (as the go to the store to rent it)
The original was pretty flawed and overrated, but it had a lot of potential. I liked that it was a monster movie with elements of comedy thrown in. The film would have been a lot more fun had it been shorter and been less melodramatic in parts. That being said, I think a remake might be a good idea, especially if it trims the fat of the original.
You think The Host is overrated, yet you're going to be posting a mixed/positive review for Twilight soon. You and your site have ZERO credibility.
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Universal Pictures and Gore Verbinski will remake the 2006 Bong Joon-ho-directed Korean thriller "The Host," with commercials director Fredrik Bond making his feature helming debut and Mark Poirier ("Smart People") to pen the script.
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