Last year, not long after Spike Lee's "Oldboy" redo was released to critical skewering, while being roundly ignored by audiences, it was announced that Kim Jee-woon's brutal, bleak "I Saw The Devil" was next to head through Hollywood's remake grinder. We weren't exactly pleased by the news, but now we have a little more faith that his might have a chance of making the difficult international crossover, thanks to the man being chosen guide it.
The Wrap reports that "The Guest" duo — writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard — will reteam to take on the bloody South Korean chiller. The original film follows a special agent who seeks revenge after his pregnant fiancé is murdered by monstrous, vicious serial killer (played by "Oldboy" star Choi Min-Sik). And when the legal system can't contain the killer, the agent seeks out vigilante justice, and the pair begin a cat-and-mouse game where the line between cop and killer gets very...