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‘I Saw The Devil’ Getting Remade So American Audiences Will See The Devil
If you liked both Dredd (I loved it) and I Saw The Devil there’s some potentially cool news on the horizon. Dredd producers Adi Shankar and Spencer Silna have acquired the English-language remake rights to the film via their 1984 Private Defense Contractors shingle.
Kim Jee-Woon’s masterful film is only a few years old, so I can understand being conflicted about it. On the other hand, these guys seem to have the best intentions telling the Wrap, “[the original] is perfect in so many ways. The intention is not to remake the film per se, but rather to “port” it for international audiences.” While I consider a remake to be a remake regardless of the “port” branding, these guys are more than capable of pulling off some daring material. They were involved with The Grey in addition to the aforementioned Dredd.
The original film starred Choi Min-sik “as a psychopathic serial killer up against Lee Byung-hun as a special agent whose fiancée becomes one of his victims. Lee’s cool-headed and intelligent character in turn becomes a monster in order to avenge the killing.“
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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