Post by Viced on Oct 6, 2019 15:26:34 GMT
variety.com/2019/film/asia/busan-park-chan-wook-to-remake-casta-gavras-film-the-ax-1203360642/
Holy shiiiiiiiit... Park adapting Westlake. What a time to be alive!
Great book, still need to see the Gavras film though...
“Old Boy” director Park Chan-wook says he is getting ready to make comedy horror film “The Ax.” The film would be a remake of the 2005 film by Greek-French director Costa Gavras, which was itself a adaptation of a Donald Westlake novel.
The story involves a chemist who is make redundant due to outsourcing, and devises a solution to eliminate his competition.
“I have had a lifetime project to make a film titled ‘The Ax’,” Park said in an open talk with Greek-French director Costa Gavras, held at the Busan Cinema Center on Sunday, at the Busan International Film Festival. “I’ve not yet started filming, but I wish to make this film as my masterpiece.”
“I want to remake this French-language film into an English-language one,” Park said. “And Gavras and his wife have the filming rights, and they are producers of my project. I’ve been working with Gavras family for years.”
In the last few years Park made “The Handmaiden,” an erotic fantasy thriller which appeared in competition in Cannes in 2016. He followed that in 2018 by making English-language TV series, “The Little Drummer Girl” for the BBC based on the novel of the same name by John le Carre.
The story involves a chemist who is make redundant due to outsourcing, and devises a solution to eliminate his competition.
“I have had a lifetime project to make a film titled ‘The Ax’,” Park said in an open talk with Greek-French director Costa Gavras, held at the Busan Cinema Center on Sunday, at the Busan International Film Festival. “I’ve not yet started filming, but I wish to make this film as my masterpiece.”
“I want to remake this French-language film into an English-language one,” Park said. “And Gavras and his wife have the filming rights, and they are producers of my project. I’ve been working with Gavras family for years.”
In the last few years Park made “The Handmaiden,” an erotic fantasy thriller which appeared in competition in Cannes in 2016. He followed that in 2018 by making English-language TV series, “The Little Drummer Girl” for the BBC based on the novel of the same name by John le Carre.
Holy shiiiiiiiit... Park adapting Westlake. What a time to be alive!
Great book, still need to see the Gavras film though...
