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The Hollywood remake machine keeps churning 'em out with the announcement today that Warner Bros. has acquired the remake rights to Chan-Wook Park's Korean film Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.

According to Variety, producers behind the remake are CJ Entertainment, also responsible for Park's Thirst and Joon-ho Bong's (The Host) Mother.

In Sympathy, the women two different men love are murdered, and the men set out on violent quests to punish those responsible. Trouble is, they themselves are the ones responsible and only one of them will have vengeance.

Brian Tucker (Broken City) is set to write the script.

Sympathy could be the second film in Chan-Wook Park's Vengeance Trilogy to receive a makeover, Variety reports that Oldboy is currently being remade by Mandate and Vertigo, although the actual status is unknown with various sources reporting that this one is dead in the water.