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Park Chan-wook Loses His Cool, Grabs An ‘Axe’
Let the violence continue as Park Chan-wook – director of Oldboy, Thirst, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and JSA – has officially chosen his next project. The news is a shocker as the Korean director has chosen to remake a violent thriller by the name of The Axe. You can read all about it beyond the break.
Twitch translates the news and reports:
“According to a Star News exclusive (so we’ll treat this as an informed rumor until more sources pop up), Park will in fact return to Chungmuro with the first remake of his career, adapting Costa-Gavras’ 2005 film Le Couperet (The Ax), itself adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s eponymous novel.
The premise couldn’t be more topical: a middle aged, middle class salaryman loses his job after a downsizing, and after spending the following two years downsizing his lifestyle, he decides to overcome competition in his own personal way: chopping down anyone who gets in the way of his path back into fiscal solvency.
Park was approached by Studio Canal at the last Cannes Film Festival, right as offers from Hollywood were raining down on him, so it’s likely they will join Moho Films in a co-production. Last year’s debutant Lee Gyeong-Mi of 미쓰 홍당무 (Crush & Blush) is writing the script as we speak, and the film plans to shoot in New York. Feels exactly like the kind of film Park might turn into brilliance (particularly following the global crisis), so we’ll just have to hope this turns out to be true. In any case, we’ll keep you updated.”
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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