USA Today article on Japanese (and other) remakes

[Ted Mills]

Thought this would interest the group, if only to elicits groans over how
these films will inevitably be ruined.

Roy Lee, producer of the Ring remake, seems to have made it his job to buy
up the rights to everything that interests him.

> In all, Lee has pitched 15 films; 10 of them are now set up at various
> studios. Lee sold Miramax the rights to the Korean film "My Wife Is a
> Gangster", which he describes as a female version of "True Lies". ("The wife
> is hiding the fact that she's the head of the Mafia from her husband," he
> says.) He placed "Il Mare", another South Korean film, in which two people
> fall in love but live two years apart in time, with Warner Bros.
> 
> More titles in the hopper include the Korean romantic comedy "Sassy Girl" and
> the Japanese "Chaos", a cat-and-mouse thriller that will star Benicio Del
> Toro. Robert De Niro is a producer and might also star. Two other Japanese
> films are in the works: "Dark Water", a horror movie, and "Turn", which Lee
> describes as ""The Others" meets "Groundhog Day"."

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/0627oldmovies.html

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