November 6: HOST director talks U.S. remake
Little time was wasted before Bong Joon-ho’s acclaimed creature feature THE HOST was picked up for an American retelling. Although the film won’t make its splash domestically via Magnolia Pictures until January 31, Universal won the remake rights last week, much to the chagrin of that lucky batch who have already seen the flick.
Fango caught up to Bong at the AFI fest in Los Angeles this weekend, and we couldn’t help but pick his brain about the studio system’s almost desperate eagerness to redo the film on U.S. shores. Not surprisingly, he shows no air of being nonplussed about the matter; after all, his own vision of THE HOST is already guaranteed Stateside exposure. But those familiar with the plot’s emotional intricacies and political satire can only speculate whether an Americanized version will lose much in the translation. Bong believes the remake (due in about “two or three years,” he says) might benefit from a distillation.
“There are so many layers in this film that I think it would be impossible to translate them,” the director tells Fango. “On the other hand, I was thinking, ‘We have the original with all those layers, why don’t [they] do this one simple?’ Fit it into the traditions of the monster genre. In ours, we have: monster appears, kidnaps daughter, and family goes after it. As long as the remake keeps the ‘loser family’ [taking on the monster] element from the plot—and I’m fighting for that to happen—it might be better to simplify it and make the monster more powerful—with more action and more shots of the creature!”—Ryan Rotten
Fuente: FANGORIA
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