Hollywood has gone back to South Korea once again for their idea's and with the writers strike, this comes as little surprise. Just 24 hours after the highly praised South Korean film SEVEN DAYS opened in it's homeland and the word has come from The Hollywood Reporter that the American film studio Summit Entertainment have secured the remake rights and are looking to lense the film sometime next year. Probably sometime after the WGA strike is over, so a writer can be brought in to make the changes for a remake. The original Korean film stars LOST actress Yun-jin Kim in the lead role as a lawyer who is being threatened with the kidnapping of her daughter if she can't free a convicted killer on Death Row in seven days. Here's the trailer for the movie. Sadly I couldn't find an English subtitled version...
As much as I would prefer the original (if it's as good as a six-figure remake deal would suggest) just to get an extended run in cinema's, I am reminded that remakes like THE DEPARTED and Christopher Nolan's adaptation of INSOMNIA have come from talented directors who have their own agenda to inject into the story.
And it's difficult to argue the point that this movie wouldn't make hardly any money if it was released in the U.K. or U.S. right now. The mass audience just doesn't have the inclination to read subtitles I'm afraid, no matter how cool of a film they are missing out on.
Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.
