We were discussing stuff like this. Never get the American need to remake so many foreign films. Despite this guy's take, the original --which was released here last year--was received well by those who saw it.
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Tracey de Morsella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/korean-mutant-squid-flick-the-host-getting-americanized BY: Brad Brevet | November 19th 2008 at 2:45 AM Korean Mutant Squid Flick, The Host, Getting Americanized The original wasn't even all that good Im not sure how Universal Pictures and producer Gore Verbinski were convinced Mark Poirier was the man to write an American adaptation of the Korean mutant fish hit The Host, but he has apparently got the gig. Poirier has only this years mediocre Smart People to his credit and it hardly screams horror. For those not familiar, The Host is a Korean horror/thriller centering on the idea of the contaminated waters of the Han River spawning a mutant fish beast that begins eating the locals. Personally I am not a huge fan of the film and actually wrote an article headlined So Whats the Big Deal with The Host? I got a couple bites in the comments on that article, but no overwhelming outcry saying I was wrong. Considering the film maintains a 92% rating at RottenTomatoes I expected some kind of resistence. The studio has attached Fredrik Bond as director. Bond is a commercial director who told Variety, It processes a few genres together, and visually it feels close to the stuff Ive made over the last few years in commercials, the tonality of humor and the scale. Considering Bond has ben directing Nike, Adidas and Levis commercials I am not sure how exactly they compare to The Host, but good on him if he can figure it out. Heres a commercial by Bond that perhaps gets to the bottom of his comparison along with a look at the major attack scene from The Host. You do the comparing and see what you think.
