Oldboy
Sharlto Copley ’s calling has been on the rise ever sinceDistrict 9propelled him into the limelight . The South African actor was a standout performer in an ensemble of impressive actors ( and Rampage Jackson ) asterisk in Joe Carnahan’sA - Teamreboot , andDistrict 9already proved he can carry a celluloid as a leading man .
That latter point is a fact thatApollo 18director Gonzalo López - Gallego recognizes , as he has spue Copley in the lead office for his next pic , Open Grave . The player ostensibly also has what it takes to make a fairly convincing villain , because Spike Lee has tapped him to bet that very role in his forthcoming remake / re - interpretation ofOld Boy .
We report a few weeks back thatCopley had been offered theOld Boyvillain role , and nowDeadlineconfirms that a deal with the actor has in fact been reached . In the film , Copley will act Adrian Pryce , a billionaire who apply his considerable resource to jug a man named Joe Douchett ( Josh Brolin ) in a locked elbow room for over a decade , before setting him barren with the sadistic terror that he must get a line the ground for his " penalty " within in a set span of time , or be further torture .
Fans of Korean director Park Chan - wook ’s 2003 version ofOld Boyknow just how depraved and psychotic ( in an eerily insure sort of path ) the baddie in the fib is - especially at the end , when the full luck of the situation are revealed . With promises from producers of thisOld Boyremake that the glowering heart of the filmwill be even dismal in the American version , one can only judge what perverse threat Copley will be called on to parade . found on his past role , he should fork out .
Of course , the interrogative sentence remains : Why did more lauded actors likeClive Owen , Colin FirthandChristian Baleall pass on the persona before Copley got it ? Was it just timing , or does their absence hint something about the character of this remaking ?
We ’ll discover out as production onOld Boygets underway this declension .
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Open Grave
We have it away piddling aboutOpen Graveat this distributor point - other than it ’s a pic from the hombre who made the unfathomable bump - footage repulsion flickApollo 18(see photograph above).Word is that Copley play the star , a man who rouse in a pit full of bodies and has a serial publication of flashbacks which leave him questioning whether or not he is the killer creditworthy for what lie in the aggregative grave - or if the orca is in fact one of the strangers who rescue him from the infernal region .
IfOpen Graveindeed is the type of psychotic person - thriller it initially seems to be ( voice a lot likeA Perfect Getaway ) , then it will indeed need a chair man with the kind of grasp for fright and paranoia and panic that Copley already proved he was adequate to of during his Kafkaesque transformation inDistrict 9 .
open up Graveis currently in the pre - production level , but filming should get underway soon .
Source : Deadline
