The American Oldboy will not be a remake of the Park Chan Wook film but will instead be a fresh interpretation of the original Japanese manga – source material that Park himself strayed significantly from.  So, not a remake but a different version from the same source. Continue reading at TwitchFilm.net

Here’s more from Will Smith, courtesy of FilmSchoolRejects.com:

Oldboy Manga

Will Smith: “We’re looking at that right now. Not the film though, it’s the original source material. 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…”

Apparently Spielberg wasn’t acquiring the rights to the film Oldboy, he was acquiring the rights to the original source material of the graphic novel ‘Oldboy.’ Continue reading at FilmSchoolRejects.com

I’m glad this was cleared up, because I didn’t think there was any way it could compare to the original film. What do you think?