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Watch The Intense First Ever Footage From Park Chan-wook’s English-Language ‘Stoker’!!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on September 20, 2012 @ 9:39am
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Fox Searchlight has locked down a March 1, 2013 release for Park Chan-wook’s english-language debut, Stoker, his vampire tale penned by Ted Foulke (aka Wentworth Miller). ET has shared a tease of the film’s trailer that puts the nasty Stoker family on display. This looks to have all of the good character development seen in Chan-wook’s Korean cinema.

Miller also stars alongside Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Jacki Weaver, Lucas Till, Alden Ehrenreich, Phyllis Somerville and Dermot Mulroney.

“After India’s (Wasikowska’s) father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother (Kidman). Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him.”

This is the first in a planned trilogy. Park Chan-wook is the Korean master of genre cinema having directed Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengenace and Lady Vengeance, along with Thirst and JSA. READ MORE

‘Oldboy’ Director Chan-wook Park Tackling The Ultra Violent ‘Brigands Of Rattleborge’!

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Posted by EvanDickson on August 29, 2012 @ 3:14pm
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Chan-wook Park (Oldboy; pictured above) recently wrapped up Stoker for Fox Searchlight and now he turns his attention to, the much more violent, The Brigands Of Rattleborge. I read this script about 5 or 6 years back (back when Mel Gibson was considered a viable name to direct) and it’s pretty hardcore! Park will be right at home!

Per Variety, “South Korean helmer Chan-wook Park (“Oldboy”) is in talks to direct Craig Zahler‘s Black List western ‘The Brigands of Rattleborge,’ which Red Granite Pictures has come on to fully finance and co-produce with Mythology Entertainment. Red Granite toppers Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland will produce with Mythology’s Bradley Fischer (“Shutter Island”). The other Mythology principals are Laeta Kalogridis and James Vanderbilt, who will likely be involved in a producing capacity, though their exact credits, along with those of Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer and Zahler, are still being worked out.”

The film is an “ultra-violent thriller that follows a sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits who use the cover of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize the occupants of a small town.”

‘Oldboy’ Director’s ‘Stoker’ Gets English-Language Debut Release Set!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 17, 2012 @ 6:17pm
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Fox Searchlight has locked down a March 1, 2013 release for Park Chan-wook’s english-language debut, Stoker, his vampire tale penned by Ted Foulke (aka Wentworth Miller).

Miller also stars alongside Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Jacki Weaver, Lucas Till, Alden Ehrenreich, Phyllis Somerville and Dermot Mulroney.

This is the first in a planned trilogy. Park Chan-wook is the Korean master of genre cinema having directed Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengenace and Lady Vengeance, along with Thirst and JSA.

Park Chan-wook Only Put Down ‘The Axe’ For A Little Bit, Now He’s Picking It Back Up

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 19, 2012 @ 7:12pm
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Director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Thirst, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and the upcoming Stoker) is loyal to the projects that grab his attention. After he finishes post-production on Stoker he’s going to be circling back to the project he was prepping before that script came along, The Axe.

Chan-wook told the Korea JoongAng Daily that “I was planning to make another film, ‘The Axe,’ before I started shooting ‘Stoker.’ But while I was still seeking investors for that film, I received the screenplay for ‘Stoker.’ So ‘The Axe’ will be my next work, though I need to do some more work on the casting and attracting investors. I’m also thinking about making a historical film, but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to do that… I’d like to continue working in both Hollywood and Korea. Actually, it doesn’t matter to me where a film is made. If the story is good, I’ll follow it.”

The Axe certainly sounds interesting. In the film (a remake of Costa-Gavras’ 2005 film Le Couperet (The Ax), adapted from a novel by Donald E. Westlake), “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.”

Stoker has no firm release date as of yet, but it’s looking like a Fall 2012 release. READ MORE

Wentworth Miller Goes From ‘Stoker’ To ‘The Disappointments Room’

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 13, 2012 @ 7:57pm
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Wentworth Miller (“Prison Break”) surprised everyone when he wrote Stoker under a pseudonym because he was afraid the script wouldn’t be taken seriously otherwise. Turns out he was right, it’s a great script that might not have gotten a decent chance if had gone out as the writing project from “that guy from that TV show”. I imagine he doesn’t have this problem anymore as The Disappointments Room has just been announced.

Voltage Pictures (The Hurt Locker) is joining up with Killer Films (Mildred Pierce) for The Disappointments Room, Nicolas Chartier and Zev Foreman of Voltage will team with Killer’s Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon to produce. The film “is a dramatic thriller about a woman who moves into a mysterious old house in the country with her husband and young son, only to discover their new home comes with a dark past.”

The project is currently out to directors, but I doubt they’ll have much of a problem in that department. Meanwhile, Miller’s Chan-wook Park directed Stoker is still set for release later this year from Fox Searchlight. It stars Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney and Wia Wasikowska.

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‘Stoker’ Founds a Housekeeper in Phyllis Somerville

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 19, 2011 @ 10:55pm
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A small piece of exclusive casting news as we’re exclusively told that Phyllis Somerville (“Fringe”) has joined the growing cast of Stoker, Korean director Park Chan-wook’s (Oldboy) English-language debut that will also star Wentworth Miller, Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Jacki Weaver, Lucas Till, Dermot Mulroney and Alden Ehrenreich.

Somerville will play Stoker’s housekeeper, Mrs. Garrick.

Penned by Miller on the pseudonym Ted Foulke, “It’s the story of an eccentric teen whose enigmatic and estranged uncle (Firth) who returns to the family after the death of the girl’s father.”

Miller has also written Uncle Charlie, a prequel to Stoker that explores another chapter in the history of an unusual family that has a knack for burying secrets, as well as bodies.
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Dermot Mulroney Joins Mysterious ‘Stoker’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 10, 2011 @ 10:59pm
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Dermot Mulroney (Abduction, Zodiac, The Grey) has joined the cast of Stoker, the Fox Searchlight thriller written by former “Prison Break” star Wentworth Miller.

Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Lucas Till and Jacki Weaver make up the ensemble cast of the pic, which begins lensing later this month in Nashville with Oldboy‘s Chan-wook Park in the director’s chair.

“The story centers on a young woman (Wasikowska) who loses her father and must contend with a mysterious uncle (Goode). Mulroney is playing the woman’s father.”
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Spielberg Discovery, ‘Twixt’ Star Joins ‘Stoker’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on August 02, 2011 @ 1:24am
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For an actor initially discovered by Steven Spielberg in a video shown at a bat mitzvah, Alden Ehrenreich is doing pretty well for himself, as the Twixt star is in talks to join Mia Wasikowska in the Fox Searchlight thriller Stoker, reports Variety.

Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) stars as a teenage loner who’s thrown off by the arrival of her mysterious uncle (Matthew Goode, Watchmen) while she mourns the death of her father.

Ehrenreich will play Whip Taylor, an alpha dog on the football team who’s initially kind to Wasikowska’s protag despite the fact that his jock friends pick on her, though he eventually forces himself on her.

Nicole Kidman, Lucas Till and Jacki Weaver co-star in the pic, which Chan-wook Park (Oldboy) is directing from a script that “Prison Break” thesp Wentworth Miller penned under the pseudonym Ted Foulke. Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and Michael Costigan are producing for Scott Free.
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Actor Wreaks Havok on ‘Stoker’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 29, 2011 @ 10:26pm
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Lucas Till, the young actor who played Havok in X-Men: First Class, has joined the cast of Stoker, a Fox Searchlight thriller from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook, reports TheWrap.

Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode also star.

The actor Wentworth Miller wrote the movie under the pseudonym Ted Foulke.

Chan-wook Park is directing the movie about a teen who is mourning the death of her father at the same time her mysterious uncle appears in her life.
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Oscar Nominated Actress Joins Park Chan-wook’s ‘Stoker’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 27, 2011 @ 11:48pm
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Jacki Weaver, whose murderous matriarch earned her an Oscar nomination for Animal Kingdom, has signed on to star in Stoker, the Fox Searchlight thriller that was written by actor Wentworth Miller under the pseudonym Ted Foulke, reports Deadline.

Weaver joins Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode in the Park Chan-wook-directed thriller about a teen who is mourning the death of her father and has to deal with an eccentric uncle who shows up unexpectedly.

Chan-wook is best known for directing Oldboy, JSA and Thirst. This is his English-language debut.
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‘Stoker’ To Make Goode Casting Choice

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Posted by David Harley on June 09, 2011 @ 1:33am
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Chan-Wook Park solidified himself as one of the best directors of the last decade with the Vengeance trilogy, along with the pretty great Thirst and I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK. With Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman set to star and brothers Ridley and Tony Scott producing, his English language debut, Stoker, is beginning to look like a star-studded event.

Last we heard, Colin Firth was being courted for the lead male role in the film, which follows a teenage girl who must deal with the unexpected appearance of a mysterious uncle while mourning the death of her father. Variety just got word that Matthew Goode is in talks for the part. I got to admit, I haven’t seen a lot of Goode’s work, but he was spot on as Ozymandias in Watchmen.

The Fox Searchlight production is set to debut sometime in 2012.
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Big Oscar Names to Topline ‘Oldboy’ Director’s ‘Stoker’!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 12, 2011 @ 2:46am
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Ha! And I thought I could finally sit down to watch some basketball…

The LA Times is reporting that hot with Oscar buzz, Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman look to new roles in Stoker.

Firth, the British actor receiving major Oscar buzz for his portrayal of King George VI in The King’s Speech, is negotiating to join the family mystery-drama that South Korean filmmaker Chan Wook-Park (Oldboy, Thirst) is making as his first English-language movie.

Nicole Kidman, herself gaining award-season buzz for her turn as a grieving mother in Rabbit Hole, is also negotiating to come aboard in a lead part.

Penned by actor Wentworth Miller, Stoker tells of a girl and her mother who are visited by a mysterious uncle after the girl’s father dies. Kidman would play the mother and Firth the uncle. The Fox Searchlight film, which is being produced by Ridley Scott’s production company and will star Mia Wasikowska as the girl, India Stoker, is set to start shooting in late spring.
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Joe Foster Out, ‘Alice’ in for Creepy ‘Stoker’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on January 28, 2011 @ 4:24pm
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Alice in Wonderland‘s Mia Wasikowska is negotiating to star in Stoker, the Fox Searchlight thriller that will be directed by Oldboy and Thirst director Chan-wook Park. The script was written by Wentworth Miller, the “Prison Break” star who wrote under the pseudonym Ted Foulke. Ridley and Tony Scott will produce with Michael Costigan under the Scott Free banner.

Carey Mulligan had been attached when the script sold, but it be Wasikowska in the lead role when shooting begins this spring. She’ll play an eccentric teen whose enigmatic and estranged uncle returns to the family after the death of the girl’s father. Strange things begin to happen. Jodie Foster had been attached along with Mulligan, but she’s not doing the film, Deadline adds. When he sold Stoker, Miller had also written Uncle Charlie, a prequel that explores another chapter in the history of a family with a knack for burying secrets as well as bodies.

Joe Foster Out, Alice in for Creepy Stoker

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Posted by MrDisgusting on November 17, 2010 @ 5:50pm
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This could easily be the best news of the year, sans the reveal of J.J. Abrams’ Super 8. The LA Times is reporting that South Korean director Park Chan-wook – the genius behind Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Thirst – could make his English-language directorial debut on Stoker, a drama about a young woman whose eccentric uncle comes back into her life after the death of her father. Stoker>, you may recall, is the first film from “Prison Break” star Wentworth Miller, who penned the script in his other life as a screenwriter, and is being produced by Ridley and Tony Scott’s company, as well as Carey Mulligan is playing the young woman, and Jodie Foster is co-starring in the movie.
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