Here's Spike's answers to
Esquire Magazine:
ESQ: Now that you've finished this, you're onto remaking Oldboy, a somewhat notorious South Korean thriller. What's a Spike Lee Oldboy going to look like?
SL: We should find out.
ESQ: The original is drastically different from the comic it comes from. It goes from Japan to Korea to America. How do you feel about bringing it here?
SL: To be honest, I don't like talking about stuff in advance.
ESQ: So it's not already...?
SL: No. We're not shooting yet.
And in an interview with The Playlist, Spike says he hopes his next film will be Brooklyn Loves MJ (rumored to star Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, Julianne Moore, and Kerry Washington) not OldBoy. However, I have to note that Spike shot Red Hook Summer in a mere 18 days, and there's plenty of time to fit that in before OldBoy supposedly starts production. Still, there was no mention of OldBoy.
Skip to the 1:21 mark to hear Spike Lee dodge questions about OldBoy from MTV's Josh Horowitz.
All this leads me and many others to believe that OldBoy is in serious trouble, not the "delayed" kind of trouble but "shelved all together" kind of trouble. Speaking to a few other bloggers and media journalists, the feeling is that the announcement that OldBoy has been put on an indefinite hold could come down at any moment. More news on the movie as we have it.
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