Add to the Pile, 'A Tale of Two Sisters'.

Honestly, this is more than rediculous. The amount of remakes being announced is just unbelievable. I feel like in the past few days, there's been more than ever!

Hell, it was just announced that the new Hulk movie will likely be a remake. What the hell?

Don't forget the announced IT remake as well.

Jeezus.

-Elliot

Well, Tartan is probably happy to hear about this. I'm sure that once the remake is released, it will boost the sales for the Korean version of the film. I'd think that some of the people who enjoy the remake might be curious to see the original.
A Tale Of Two Sisters is one of the first Korean movies I saw that I thoroughly enjoyed, so anything that brings more attention to it is alright with me.

an it remake well that doesn't sound that bad aslong as it's an actual movie and is close to the book.

if hollywood are going to keep remaking asian films i think im going to write some very aggresive letters!!!

old news... the remake rights were sold a week before the film hit cinemas in Korea back in 2003.

why does every one waste their breath on this stuff? so the remake is bad/average. means the orginal gets further credibility in film history and shows Hollywood for being creatively bankrupt...

never hear people complain as much about new mountings of stage plays or cover songs as much as I hear about the remake trends these days

The problem is, jiangtou, that after someone watches a remake, they don't run out and watch the original source material. If the remake is good, they just think "Oh that was fun..." and move along with their lives. If the remake was bad, then the credability of the original goes down the toilet, and I have to feel the fool when I state that I liked a certain film or anime and some jackass says that it sucks based souly on watching a remake or a dub...

America, this is for your own good, LEARN TO READ! NOW DAMNIT!

Obvious counterpoint: why exactly do you think you can go to your local blockbuster right now and pick up the original Ringu? Didn't come out before the remake, that's for damn sure.

mrjuju.. This is a problem? The majoirty of audiences solely view films as entertainment. We twitchites on the other hand, are very passionate about cinema and sometimes we get blinded by it. I have lost my perspective many times on this, but nowadays try and laugh it off. Auds watch BROKEBACK or HITCHIKERS or TRAINSPOTTING OR FIGHT CLUB and rarely go out and read the book right? Remember, BATTLE ROYALE and RING were based on books. If someone judges the original. soley based on a remake/anime/dub without watching the orig, their loss. I'm not crying for them.

And I think Amerians have slowly been forgetting how to read. Canadians on the other hand, different story...

Don't want to cause trouble or enrage people, just trying give the issue another perspective.

oh... another thought. Congrats to Kim Jee Won and his producer Oh Jeong-Wan (the talented lady who also did FOUL KING and BITTERSWEET LIFE) for getting some cashola from the US for the remake rights so they can go ahead and make another fine film in the future! And the same goes to Park Chan-wook! Afraid the Pang Brothers squandered it all with RE-CYCLE.

And never hear people rage about HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS! Maybe if the US turned SISTERS or OLD BOY into a musical we'd complain to a different tune!

"Obvious counterpoint: why exactly do you think you can go to your local blockbuster right now and pick up the original Ringu? Didn't come out before the remake, that's for damn sure."

Not a very good counterpoint - we in the UK for example had the original released 2 years before the remake. In fact it was released theatrically across most of Europe. The reason you couldn't get it in North America for so long was solely due to the fact that the film was being remade.

And as for that argument about Americans not reading subtitles - it just doesnt wash. As Jonathon Rosenbaum once pointed out in his book "Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See", subtitles never stopped Americans going to see Schindlers List of Dances with Wolves.

As for TALE OF TWO SISTERS, the film looked wonderful but it didnt really do much for me. In fact the story reaked of the sort of scriptwriting over-cleverness of too many recent US horrors, so I don't think there's going to be much to lose in the translation.

twitchites! That's one to write down.

oops. let me go read all the hulaballo on the battle royale remake pile. I seemed to have missed that. I shut my mouth for now...

CHUT - cannibalistic humaniod underground twitchites...

personally see a large difference between covering a song / restaging a play and remaking a film - the key concern, beyond simply being 'dont touch our precious movies' (i.e a generalisation that remakes are bad) is that the soul and honesty gets ripped out of remakes, thats for any remake pretty much (whatever the origins) simply because the point in time means a lack of decent quality from hollywood more often than not. with songs / plays, the soul is in the lyrics and is hard to eradicate even with a restagin or cover version : youre supposed to know its origins, and thats not the same with remaking a film, where the origins are almost certainly supposed to be hidden away. yes, we knew a long time ago that the remake writes were sold, and the rumours about casting were talked about in the past couple of years, but the actual project going ahead is a step-up and it does relate to a general upping of the pace on these remakes right now (particularly timely coming the day after BR).

Yeh, I saw the original Ring at the cinema here in the UK, many years before the remake came out, and without sounding arrogant - before the hype!

My main objection to remakes is not that the original may get more recognition, simply that it destroys the soul of the original. I hate seeing audiences spoon-fed, I hate cash-ins, and I really have no tolerance for those that can't look outside the box and explore foreign film - It's out there people - go look!

On the subject of Happiness of the Katakuris (which was brought up earlier). What Miike did with that film is actualy not, in my book at least, a remake. He "re-imagined" the film. IMO there is a huge diference.
When one remakes a move, they set out to tell the same story in the same way that the original did. Think of Ring as an example. When this happens, the creative spark and passion that may have been contained in the original are lost, and the movie is a souless waste of time and energy.
Now a re-imagining, on the other hand, strives to either tell the same story in a different way (i.e. Happiness, Fistful of Dollars, Mag. Seven etc.) or to tell a different story using the original story as a spring board (Wicked jumps into mind, but there are better exaples out there, I just can;t think of any off hand). When one goes about making a re-imagining, the creative process comes back into play, the project can become the property of the filmmaker and the passion can flow. I personaly believe that reimaginings are the very heart or art itself, as, inreality, there are only so many stories out there to tell. If one were to tell the same story, the same way, over and over again, nothing would be gained. If, however, you can tell the same story a different was, put a new spin on it, so to speak, then you've come up with something new and original.
If they were to announce that the writers and directors of the American versions of B.R. and Two Sisters were making the project their own and taking it in a different direction, I'd have no problem with that. Personaly, I'd like to see someone elses vision of the stories, since I've allready seen the original versions. However, judging from the past, there is almost no hope that these projects will be original, instead opting for the much easier "Throw some white kisd on an island and let them shoot it out" or "Throw some white kids in a house and let them look angsty" approach that gave us The Ring, The Grudge and more recently The Omen.

"If they were to announce that the writers and directors of the American versions of B.R. and Two Sisters were making the project their own and taking it in a different direction, I'd have no problem with that."

Well, Scorsese's doing exactly that with The Departed and the fan boys have been roasting him at the stake for it ...

Jasper: I bow to your superior knowledge. I consider my counterpoint trounced.

The trailer for The Lake House, the remake of Il Mare makes it appear to be the original creation of the American screenwriter.