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Producer Buys Film Remake Rights
May 25, 9:10 AM EST


South Korean film producer Park Hyung-jun's production company has bought the remake rights to John Woo's classic Hong Kong gangster movie "A Better Tomorrow."

Park's company, Fingerprint Pictures, bought the remake rights from Fortune Star Entertainment, the distribution division of media company News Corp.'s STAR Group, the two companies said Thursday in a joint statement.

Fingerprint plans to start shooting the remake in 2007 and is currently recruiting a director and script writers for the film, which made actor Chow Yun-fat's gun-toting, trench coat-wearing character a screen icon.

"We are thrilled and honored to have acquired the rights to remake one of the most prestigious films in Hong Kong's history," Park was quoted as saying in the statement.

"A Better Tomorrow" tells the story of two estranged brothers — one a gangster, the other a policeman. In Woo's original, released in 1986, late Hong Kong pop star Leslie Cheung plays the policeman and Ti Lung plays his older brother.

Chow plays an associate of the gangster, but his character's feisty personality and stylish gunplay stood out.

Park's producing credits include "Byul" and "My Boyfriend Is Type B."

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MartinBlank

Weak.

So, is this to be a remake for US audiences or Korean audiences?

marty888

Oh no - the Korean film industry has reached the point where they are going to do remakes?

This is sad.

clemente

Has Hollywood run out of ideas, I swear a bunch of monkies....oh, its a Korean company? Can we still bitch about Hollywood?

Seriously though, unnecessary. On the plus side, chances are it'll never screen in the US.

Derrich

Why not just call it A Better Tommorow 5 and say Chow Yun Fat's character had -another- twin brother.

D