Hollywood wants Danny Boyle to remake LADY VENGEANCE

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Empire, out of sheer luck, have got themselves quite an interesting scope after an innocent user chat with Brit director Danny Boyle revealed that the SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE helmer has recently been offered the chance to remake Chan-Wook Park's 2005 revenge movie LADY VENGEANCE...

I was just asked to do a remake of Lady Vengeance, the one after Oldboy. My favourite is Audition.

VENGEANCE being the last of Chan-Wook Park's Asian trilogy that began with SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE and followed through with OLDBOY. It tells the story of Lee Guem-ja who after a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the his death. Of course the movie is shockingly violent, extremely stylistic, beautiful to look at and clearly well made but I remember being very disappointed with it after the huge high I got from watching OLDBOY. Moved a bit too slow for my liking.

Presumably Boyle's comments hint towards him turning it down. Next up for him is probably going to be 28 MONTHS LATER.