A while ago I watched a Korean movie called Phone, in which a reporter has her mobile phone number changed in order to hide from a gang who she has exposed in a newspaper article. Unfortunately for her the phone number has a past, and the past keeps reaching out to the owners of the number. It’s a genuinely creepy movie, and really does get to you, with the most excellent of ending sequences.
So when I heard the storyline to the Takashi Miike movie One missed call I thought they were perhaps following the fashion for Korean remakes, but it appears I was wrong. Instantly I’ve gone and added this to my DVD rental list (currently standing at 148 movies!), and I’ve increased the priority on this so I can see it before they remake it.
That’s the news from MovieWeb, that the rights to the Miike movie have been snapped up and the Hollywood remake monster is on the move.
According to Variety, Intermedia has paired with Kadakowa USA to produce and finance an English-language remake of the Japanese horror hit One Missed Call.
In the picture, a college student fails to answer a cell phone call because she doesn’t recognize the caller’s ringtone. Later, when she plays the message, the time stamp is three days in the future and she hears her own voice as she’s being killed.
Kadakowa Pictures USA is part of the publishing company Kadakowa Shoten which has been involved in the remakes for The Ring and Grudge series, Shall we dance (oh please, let’s not) and Dark Water – watch out for this one.
Interestingly the sequel for the original opened only two weeks ago and grossed over $6 million, so should we expect the second to be bought up after the first has completed it’s opening weekend?
