Oldboy remake tempts fans with first movie poster
If you’re a fan of Far Eastern cinema, then you’ll have undoubtedly seen – or at least heard of – Oldboy, the 2003 film directed by Park Chan-wook. In true Hollywood style, it’s now about to become even more accessible to the Western market, with a new print advertising campaign marking the first moves to promote the 2013 reboot from Spike Lee.
In the original film, main character Oh Dae-su is locked in a hotel room for 15 years and is never told of his captor’s reasoning, before being released with a wallet and mobile phone to find out why. The poster for the remake – littered with a series of bloody tally marks that most likely represent the new main character’s time in captivity, this time marked at 20 years.
Josh Brolin is slated to play the protagonist, an advertising executive that is kidnapped. With Sharlto Copley openly named as his adversary in the opening stages of the film, Brolin is then free to find out exactly what caused him to be detained by his apparent nemesis.
Co-starring Elizabeth Olsen – the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley – and Samuel L Jackson, Oldboy is slated for release in the US on October 11th.