Park sharpens an Ax

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 17 years ago

Last Updated on July 26, 2021

I guess even a great director like Chan-Wook Park isn’t above doing a remake. It would seem as though the man behind the splendid VENGEANCE TRILOGY and this summer’s bizarre vampire flick THIRST has chosen his next project, a remake of 2005’s LE COUPERET (THE AX), which is a serious drama about a desperate, unemployed man who is forced to kill off his competitors until he gets his job back. (You can see a still from the film above.)

The director of the original, Costa-Gavras, confirmed the news at a South Korean film festival recently, saying: “I was glad to hear that Park, who has made political genre films, wants to remake my film.”

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