This is apparently a remake of the 2004 film Cellular that stars Kim Basinger and Chris Evans. Is this the first case of a Hollywood film remade by Hong Kong, or has it occurred before?
A few links for verification:
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/benny-chans-remake-of-cellular-under-way/
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,5108
That's what i was thinking at first too.
It's good to see that the US aren't the only who does remakes.
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One thing good is that this film doesn't try to hide the fact that it is a remake of Cellular. The Departed really does and that is why I loathed that film for a very long time. Scorsese wanted to call it an inspiration while the Americans couldn't get their basic research right and called IA a Japanese film. Worst case, TD doesn't give credit to IA until towards the end of the credits. This is the reason why some people never knew that TD was a ripoff of IA. I'm glad they never went with a TD sequel.
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This is likely to be one of the earlier ones.
Here's a few Asian remakes of Hollywood films.
1. Blood Simple → A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop - Chinese
2. What Women Want → What Women Want - Chinese
3. Sideways → Saidoweizu - Japanese
4. The Italian Job → Players - Indian*
5. Knight and Day → Bang Bang - Indian*
6. Unforgiven → Yurusarezaru mono - Japanese
* Bollywood has remade quite a few Hollywood productions.🐭
i dont know if its the first one
but i wondered
ive watched a movie which is called ri-teon (wide awake) its a south korean remake from the jessica alba hayden christensen movie awake.
i thought both (original and remake) were not great but good
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127855/
sorry for bad spelling, my english isnt very good
I'd guess not. I can't think of an OFFICIAL remake off the top of my head, but Chow Yun-Fat's Full Contact is pretty much copied from Lee Marvin's Point Blank.
shareThis is a remake of Cellular. It's not a bad movie, but of course, there are things of the original that are better and vice versa.
shareit's like the reverse of infernal affairs/the departed.
although i have to say that in both cases, the hong kong one is better.
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