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Steven Spielberg and Will Smith Remaking Oldboy?! 
First Showing | by Alex Billington | Fri, Nov 7
Fri, Nov 7
I'm a big fan of the original (as well as all of the films in Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy) and even I'm a bit worried about this remake - mainly because it's too fucked up for American cinema. Here's the thing - they're going to do it, this is going to do be remade, there's no way around it, so do...
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