Spike Lee In Talks to Direct Oldboy Remake

I'll say this about Steven Spielberg doing the Oldboy remake. Munich proved he had it in him to go in dark places with nary a trace of his trademark sentimentality. As pointless as an Americanized Oldboy is (Watch the original instead), it would be interesting to see if the Beard would go through with it and actually top the darkness of his 2005 thriller.

But any hypotheticals are moot since he isn't and Twitch reports producers have moved from one unorthodox filmmaker to another for the job.

Talks are underway for Spike Lee to direct. An equally intriguing choice, I'll admit. Would certainly be an interesting note to his filmography if a deal goes through.

No word on if Will Smith remains involved in any capacity. But as they pointed out, Smith just turned down headlining Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and something like Oldboy wouldn't fit well next to his own trademark onscreen persona. So basically none of us are holding our breath.