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November 21, 2008
Hot on the heels of news that I Am Legend scribe Mark is to pen the screenplay for the Stephen Spielberg/Will Smith Oldboy movie, it seems that 'Big Willie' has finally spilled the beans about what we should expect from the project.
Apparently, the film won't be a direct remake of the movie, but rather an adaptation of the original graphic novel on which it was based.
"We're looking at that right now," Smith told Film School Rejects on the red carpet for his new film, Seven Pounds. "Not the film though, the original source material.
He continued, "There's the original comics of 'Oldboy' that they made the first film from. And that's what we're working from, not an adaptation of the film."
Oldboy is an 8-volume manga series written by Garon Tsuchiya and illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi. It was originally published from 1996-1998.
Will this be enough to ease the fears of fans of the Korean film?
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