The Filmmakers " New Wave Korean have so much wind in their sails a decade it is fine to have one day either one of them was caught by Hollywood. Recently I was talking about the strong possibility Bong Joon-Ho, probably the best of them, and here the last few weeks, it seems to confirm that the director of Memories of Murder could see Park Chan-Wook show faster than him, by bringing to screen a script written by Wentworth Miller ...?!
This past summer it was announced that Wentworth Miller, the actor made famous by the series "Prison Break" had written a script (actually two) that everyone tore. Finally, it's Fox Searchlight, the indie arm of 20th Century Fox, which won the project, and last fall, he whispered that Park Chan-Wook was courted to realize this scenario called Stoker, announced "Hitchcockian." A qualifier which we had learned to distrust, but which could actually feel the beginnings (though the girl) by reading the pitch's brief scenario: an eccentric girl whose father has just died sees return to the fold his strange uncle.
When the name of Park Chan-Wook has started circulating this fall, he was accompanied by those of Carey Mulligan and Jodie Foster in the cast, two names that have disappeared in recent days when he seems to confirm that the filmmaker is attached to this project which could be realized quickly. It should lead to an opportunity Mia Wasikowska, who a year has made a name for Alice in Wonderland and all goes well, the kids are alright .
It's strange association talent that makes a project Stoker strange and unexpected. The production, the brothers Ridley and Tony Scott (yes I overlooked this detail ...), implementation Park Chan-Wook, Wentworth Miller and screenplay. The latter is decided to embark on a dual career as actor / writer, the latter under the pseudonym Ted Foulke. He wrote a second scenario, Uncle Charlie, who would be a prequel Stoker and would share the main character's uncle. It is rare that an established player like Wentworth Miller, who navigates between television and film, begins to write screenplays, not to make himself, nor even to offer him a role that does not offer may be otherwise (apparently, unless he has the role of the uncle, which does not seem to news ...) but just to write. This necessarily calls out a bit. This calls even when names like Ridley Scott and Park Chan-Wook interested in what Miller wrote.
For Park Chan-Wook, this could happen Pacific crossing point. The director of JSA , Sympathy for Mr Vengeance Oldboy and seems clearly losing artistic lately. The Cannes jury in 2009 may well have offered Thirst Prix du Jury, Park has shown little racing since he completed his trilogy on revenge. It is very tempting to think that Korean needs a trigger to get back in the saddle, so it does not sink slowly towards a continual disappointment. I want to return to Park Chan-Wook, who signed ECT film in the early 2000s. And if working from the United States, to rub shoulders with more constraints and meet the challenge of turning into English may stir, let him go. Especially since it is not to go make a movie or a remake of super-hero again, but an intriguing and original screenplay. If it comes back stronger than in Korea, it's worth a try.
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