Wait wait....Wentworth is writing?! I must have missed something...

dude Jodie foster in an 'Old boy' remake/reimagining would be epic! thats the only way it could possibly work!

anywhos I ll definitely look forward to the Stoker :) though theres no mention of what Foster's role in the film will be.

I am kinda nervous about this, but I don't know why. Anyone else?

this sounds...awesome. park as the writer, foster AND mulligan (omg i love her so much), and miller as the writer. don't know how miller would be as a writer though. interesting combination haha. looking forward to it.

so let me tell you this : no matter how talented a korean director is, if he will make a movie with americans actors speaking english language,the movie will be average,if not bad. No matter how talented and how 'korean' he is, he can't change the fact that the movie will be an AMERICAN one! You simply can't change that fact.

Park Chan Wook is a genious and one of the best directors ever, but if the movie he'll make will be american, he will have no choice but to adapt to holywood style in movie making, he'll have to adapt to american culture, and the most important thing : he'll also have to adapt to another one's script!
Having said that, i'm sure this movie will be...
J U S T ~ A N O T H ER ~ A M E R I C A N ~ M O V I E
end of story

wentwroth miller apparently attended princeton...

Park Chan Wook is in negotiations, peeps, his role as director hasn't been finalised yet but I wouldn't count it as his Hollywood debut since most of the LA bigwigs and critics have been raving about Oldboy for quite some time.

Technically, if he gets the deal, then this would be his debut. See, that's the thing that is so frustrating about the press. Some newspapers talk about it like it's a done deal, signed and confirmed, some say he's 'in talks'..

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My guesses.
If it bears no reference to Bram Stoker, his life or his famous novel, then perhaps it is a reference to the relationship between the young woman (Mulligan) and her uncle? A stoker tends the furnace and adds fuel, right? So, her uncle basically helps her with the grief.

i think the question would arise from this, "does he speak english?"
he is going to have a hard time directing if he can't communicate with his actors..

Wentworth Miller as a writer? Let's hope he's better at writing than acting.

Last time I checked....some pretty amazing movies have come of America. I'm a lover of films period. Regardless of where they come from US, Canada, England, France, Germany, Korea, Japan, India, ect ect. Every country can make amazing movies and crappy ones. I think it's terrible everyone is assuming it's going to be bad b/c it's going to be made in the states. How about a "Yea!!!" for more diverse views and visions in Hollywood. If they hired PCW to direct a movie i'm sure they are familiar with his style and tone of directing and chose him for that reason.

http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2010/08/stoker.html

I'm kind interested in how this will turn out.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Hollywood, really. I mean, yeah, obviously there are horrible things going on there, but just because a movie is being directed in Hollywood doesn't mean that it's going to suck. It seems a lot of times whenever news comes out about a Hollywood remake of something, people immediately start shrieking, "NO! THEY'LL RUIN IT! IT'S HOLLYWOOD! [insert dig at American movies]!" And yeah, sometimes it's best to leave classics alone -- like I'm kind-of against the Old Boy remake, I think it's pretty much impossible to top the original and it's perhaps best that no one tries to -- but at the same time, just because it's Hollywood, doesn't mean that it's bad.

Why not an hollywood debut with an Afro-American actress as second lead character at least ?

I didn't know Wentworth is a writer too. Sorta surprised, as much as when he came out (of the closet). Good to know. :)

If Jodie Foster does play the lead role on something like Old Boy, then it would be a little bit like her role on The Brave One.

I LOVE Carey Mulligan. This will be interesting.

Auteurs doing Hollywood movies is a mixed bag. In some respects, it's better if Hollywood hires you based on your music video portfolio, because they kinda presume you will shoot your movies somewhat like that style and thus you have more leverage.

I think the main thing is that Park Chan Wook probably won't be writing the adaptation Personally, I think as a director he's as overrated as Steven Sodenberg, but as a writer-for-his-movies, he's brilliant. It's where his black humor comes through.

Your first Hollywood movie is just a calling card. You don't get to make the movie you want, but if they like you, well then the conversation starts.

Unless if you're Wong Kar Wai.

Wentworth writing screenplays!? What's next, Ben Affleck a great up and coming director?

Oh wait.

it could also be because Wentworth Miller is a huge fan of Park Changwook's "Old Boy" and he had repeatedly mentioned about having an opportunity to work with him. jodie foster is a hollywood legend, so kudos for casting her. and carey mulligan is one of the rising british actresses out there who has extensively worked in both tv dramas and now movies.

Aren't they too fast to assume that Park Chan Wook is the director? The thing is this could be fake as hell. Last time I heard, Bong Joon Ho had a talk with JJ Abrams, but then the news faded away. It seems like this news is fake. I hope he could have his style and control as a director, but I heard from other interviews that American directors don't have any control, so directing American film in America is not good option.