So while we wait for Park Chan-wook to get to work producing Boon Joon-ho's film based on the French comic Transperceneige, the script for which should be underway now for a 2011 or 2012 release date, we may get to see Park tackle a story that mixes topical issues with hard-boiled noir. There's a report that he'll remake Le couperage (The Ax), a 2005 film by Costa-Gavras, which was based upon the famous (and late) crime author Donald Westlake's novel of the same name. Twitch has the report, which was originally source from Korea's Star News. I haven't seen the film (I'm bad about following Costa-Gavras; I don't know why) but the plot topically deals with unemployment, albeit in a fairly unusual, genre-friendly manner. Amazon describes it like so: [The] story [is] about a downsized executive who decides to kill off the competition. Burke Devore could be your neighbor: a laid-off ...
- 9/9/2009
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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