When he is suddenly released, he's told that he has just four days to determine the reason for his imprisonment and, if he cannot, his daughter will be killed. 100 Every Body - The Unseen The Childe Confidential Informant Oldboy R 2003, Mystery & thriller, 1h 58m 82 Tomatometer 151 Reviews 94 Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings What to know Critics. Oscar-nominee Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men) is starring in Spike Lee's 'Oldboy', an Americanized take on Park Chan-wook's acclaimed comic book-turned-film. Here is a preliminary plot synopsis for Lee's Oldboy (via Coming Soon):īrolin, who next appears on the big screen in Men in Black III, will play the part of Joe (Dae-su Oh in the original), a man who, on the day his daughter is born, is captured and imprisoned in a hotel room for over two decades (15 years in the original) with no understanding as to why. However, the man behind Dae-Su's imprisonment (Yu Ji-tae) isn't done tormenting his opponent just yet - and has an even more disturbing fate in mind for his victim. Plot In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su is arrested for public drunkenness, causing him to miss his daughters fourth birthday. Its difficult to pin-point exactly where Spike Lee went wrong with Oldboy, an American reimaging of Park Chan-wook 2003s action cult favorite, which was itself based on a Japanese manga. Suitably grim and bloody yet disappointingly safe and shallow, Spike Lee's Oldboy remake neither surpasses the original nor adds anything new to its impressive legacy. Dae-su spends those years training his body, so that upon his release, he is a killing machine able to track down and take bloody revenge on those who ruined his life. Brolin will soon be working on Ruben Flesicher's Gangster Squad Oldboy looks to be the next project on his to-do list.Ĭhan-wook's Oldboy told the macabre tale of Oh Dae-Su (played by Choi Min-sik), a man who is kidnapped on his daughter's birthday and held prisoner in a single hotel room for fifteen years, not knowing who his captors are or why they are tormenting him. Starring Josh Brolin as a man who finds himself mysteriously imprisoned for 20 years, the new film is an English-language reimagining of a film that’s held dear by fans. Based on the cult favorite by director Park Chan-wook, the film follows a man named Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin), who. Deadline has learned that Academy Award-nominee Josh Brolin has signed on to headline Oldboy, which was finally rescued from development limbo when Lee signed on earlier this summer. This weekend, Spike Lee plays the remake game with his version of Oldboy.
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