Film District celebrated their midweek by releasing a treasure trove of images for Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy, plus a short video interview of Lee talking about one of his longest-time collaborators on the project, Samuel L. Jackson.
The images reveal a visual style clearly influenced and informed by the 2003 original classic directed by Park Chan-Wook. However, there are some immediately noticeable flourishes to the new approach, not least of which is the aforementioned Jackson style.
Oldboy is the story of a man who is mysteriously imprisoned for 15 years by a nebulous organization that keeps him trapped in the hotel room from Hell with very basic cable as his only companion. After a decade and a half, he is just as mysteriously set free. And in the remake’s iteration, he discovers that he has a kidnapped daughter to boot. Thus, revenge must be his…if he can ever figure out who did this to him.
Here is the very NSFW red band trailer for those who missed it.
Oldboy stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley and Samuel L. Jackson; the picture opens November 27.