As Spike Leeâs take on Old Boy moves towards production, Twitch reports that Rooney Mara is being eyed for the female lead.
A remake of Park Chan-wookâs Oldboy, the film focuses on a man named Joe (Dae-su Oh in the original) who is captured and imprisoned in a hotel room for over two decades (15 years in the original) with no understanding as to why. When he is suddenly released, heâs told that he has just four days to determine the reason for his imprisonment.
Mara, who next plays the title character in David Fincherâs take on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, opposite Josh Brolin already signed on to play Joe.
Originally a late â90âs manga series by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi, the American version will apparently, as in that series, go by that two word title rather that the single world Oldboy that Chan-wookâs version used.
Spike Lee is set to direct the film with a script from Mark Protosevich and is eyeing an early 2012 production start.
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