Let the violence continue as Park Chan-wook - director of Oldboy, Thirst, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and JSA - has officially chosen his next project. The news is a shocker as the Korean director has chosen to remake a violent thriller by the name of The Axe. You can read all about it beyond the break.
"According to a Star News exclusive (so we'll treat this as an informed rumor until more sources pop up), Park will in fact return to Chungmuro with the first remake of his career, adapting Costa-Gavras' 2005 film Le Couperet (The Ax), itself adapted from Donald E. Westlake's eponymous novel.
The premise couldn't be more topical: a middle aged, middle class salaryman loses his job after a downsizing, and after spending the following two years downsizing his lifestyle, he decides to overcome competition in his own personal way: chopping down anyone who gets in the way of his path back into fiscal solvency.
Park was approached by Studio Canal at the last Cannes Film Festival, right as offers from Hollywood were raining down on him, so it's likely they will join Moho Films in a co-production. Last year's debutant Lee Gyeong-Mi of 미쓰 홍당무 (Crush & Blush) is writing the script as we speak, and the film plans to shoot in New York. Feels exactly like the kind of film Park might turn into brilliance (particularly following the global crisis), so we'll just have to hope this turns out to be true. In any case, we'll keep you updated."
I thought this was going to be a remake of another film called "Axe". Anyways, so he's remaking this and then Hollywood will want to do their own version. lol
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