Josh Brolin Rumored For Oldboy Lead

I actually like the idea of Brolin as the lead.

Brolin's cool I guess!!

Josh Brolin would be a great lead for Oldboy. Now who said Spike Lee dont hire white actors?.......Exactly

I'm ok with this. He's a rather odd choice, but hell, the guy made George Dubya Bush watchable!

i dont mind.. and yeah i think Gary Oldman would be good too

No Will Smith please

Spike Lee is a piece of dog shit.

Brolin is just the right age, too.
If Spike can pull this off, tonally I mean, and bring the darkness of the manga into life, the age long discussion will be over. Because it could be genius.

I really loved the previous movie adaptation, though, so getting it up to the same level will already be a challenge on its own.

Anyone against the making of this movie as a remake of the original Korean flick is forgetting the Korean flick was based on a JAPANESE manga and was very different. Thi movie will probably be a mix of the two if not closer to the manga

Here are the MAJOR differences:

The manga, which precedes the film, is considerably tamer and less violent.

Oh Dae-su is significantly different from Shinichi Goto, his manga counterpart.
Goto is considerably less tormented than Oh Dae-su; Goto is remarkably calm and stoic, even during his captivity, unlike Oh Dae-su. Also, Goto is a towering 30-something year old man in peak physique at the time of his release; Oh Dae-su is also on peak physique, albeit smaller and appearing to be at least in his late forties; Goto was imprisoned for ten years, while Oh Dae-su was imprisoned for fifteen.

Mi-Do's counterpart Eri is not Shinichi Goto's daughter, as Mi-Do is with Oh Dae-Su. Eri was hypnotically lured to Goto just as a mean of surveillance and to burden Goto. As a result, Goto and his allies move her out of Kakinuma's reach so she doesn't become a target.

Oh Dae-Su and Lee Woo-jin's former schoolmate No Joo-hwan's counterpart, Tsukamoto, is a professional acquaintance of Sinichi Goto, and is not introduced to Lee Woo-jin's counterpart, Takaaki Kakinuma until later in the story. Tsukamoto, a bartender, unlike No Joo-hwan, who runs an internet cafe, survives the ordeal.

Kakinuma, unlike Lee Woo-jin in the film, is not successful in his ruse against Goto; in fact, he is unable to break and ruin Goto and his tactics ultimately collapse miserably. Their reasons to kidnap and imprison Goto and Oh Dae-su respectively are completely different also: Goto unknowingly shattered Kakinuma's self esteem and leaves him emotionally scarred for life by feeling sorry and openly crying in music class when he realized Kakinuma's loneliness in the manga; Oh Dae-su created a rumor that turned vicious against Lee Woo-jin's sister. Kakunima, unlike Lee Woo-jin, has no relatives to speak of.

Albeit victorious against Kakinuma, Goto is left plagued by hypnotic episodes at the end of the manga which worries him about Eri, who was still vulnerable to hypnotic suggestion, as the hypnotist found her to be mentally locked by Kyoko Kataoka, Kakinuma's "assistant" and under what extent they were both hypnotized. On the other hand, Oh Dae-Su's fate is left unknown.

No one dies in the manga except Lee Woo-jin's counterpart, Takaaki Kakinuma, also by a self-inflicted gunshot on the temple

Mr. Han, Lee Wo-Jin's bodyguard's counterpart is an unnamed "Secret Service" agent that reports directly to Kakinuma and directs his surveillance operations targeting Goto.

Many major and minor characters in the manga don't have a counterpart in the film, such as Yayoi Kusama, Goto and Kakinuma's 6th grade teacher turned novelist, to whom Kakinuma entrapped to document the conflict; Kyoko Kataoka, Kakinuma's "assistant" and lastly, Kakinuma's "Referee".