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Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley Are Playing ‘The Imitation Game’

16 September 2013 6:30 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Well this is interesting. After appearing on The Black List in 2011, Graham Moore’s The Imitation Game was going to tell the story of computing pioneer Alan Turing under the wing of Leonardo DiCaprio and Warner Bros., but the studio dropped the project in August 2012. Black Bear Pictures (Broken City, A.C.O.D.) took over production duties and then signed Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) to direct, but things have been quiet for almost a year. This week, news broke that Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley would star in the film — playing Turing and code-breaker Joan Clarke respectively — and now we can report that principal photography has actually started as of yesterday. The film focuses on Turing’s life, particularly during WWII when he and a team were attempting to crack the Nazi Enigma Code, and it also stars Matthew Goode, Mark Strong and Rory Kinnear. Obviously a lot of events from 2011 are culminating into an interesting project »
- Scott Beggs

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‘Sympathy For Mr Vengeance’ Remake Gets A Director

12 September 2013 11:33 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
The remake of Korean classic Oldboy will be here before the end of the year, but that’s not the only film from Park Chan Wook’s back catalogue that’s getting a revamp. In fact, his entire vengeance trilogy is getting an English language going-over. Next up will be the remake to first installment of aforementioned trilogy, and my personal favourite, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, and we now have a director attached to the project.
Hany Abu-Assad, director of the wonderful Paradise Now, will step behind the camera to retell the tale of two men mixed up in a deadly game of revenge. A deaf and mute man kidnaps his bosses daughter in order to pay for his sister’s kidney transplant after one of his kidneys is stolen. Unfortunately he kidnaps the wrong girl and after a tragic event, the girl’s father is in pursuit of him. »
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance remake in the works

12 September 2013 10:42 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
With Spike Lee's Oldboy set for release later this year and Charlize Theron attached to Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, we can now add the first chapter of Chan-wook Park's 'Vengeance' trilogy to the list of films getting English language remakes, with The Wrap reporting that director Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) is set to adapt 2002's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.
Abu-Assad is coming off the back of a Jury Prize win at Cannes for Omar and will direct the Hollywood version of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance from a script by screenwriter Brian Tucker (Broken City). The project is being produced by Silver Reel, Lotus Entertainment, di Bonaventure Pictures and Cj Entertainment, and the search is now on for "top talent" for the lead roles in the revenge thriller about a deaf-mute man sucked into the world kidnapping and black market organ traders as he tries to save enough money

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'Paradise Now' Director Gets 'Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance' Remake

12 September 2013 9:04 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
After making a festival run at Cannes, Telluride, Toronto and more, director Hany Abu-Assad made some impressive indie waves with his Golden Globe-winning film Paradise Now, about two childhood friends who are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Now The Wrap has learned that the filmmaker is stepping up to the plate with the remake of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the English-language adaptation of Park Chan-Wook's South Korean film of the same name. The original story follows a deaf-mute man whose attempt to pay for his sister’s kidney transplant spawns a series of violent and deadly encounters. Read on! The film comes from Broken City writer Brian Tucker, and with Abu-Assad on board, some on-screen talent still needs to be rounded up. Transformers and G.I. Joe franchise director Lorenzo di Bonaventura are producing the film which will stand independent of the remakes of the other two films in Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy, »
- Ethan Anderton

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Abu-Assad To Helm "Mr. Vengeance" Remake

12 September 2013 7:15 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

Palestinian director Hany Abu Assad ("Paradise Now," "Omar") has come onboard as director on the English-language remake of Chan-Wook Park's 2002 violent revenge classic "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" at Silver Reel, Lotus Entertainment, di Bonaventura Pictures and Cj Entertainment.
The original followed a deaf-mute man whose attempt to pay for his sister’s kidney transplant spawns a series of violent encounters. Brian Tucker ("Broken City") penned the script for the remake, while Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian are producing.
The original film was the first of Park's vengeance trilogy, three standalone films that were linked thematically rather than narratively. The second was "Oldboy," which Spike Lee has since remade for release in November. A remake of the third one, "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance," is in development at Annapurna Pictures.
The project will likely come after Abu Assad's next project, the Palestine-set drama "Lamya" which he describes as a road »