Imprint turns to Korean horror
Ahn Byung-ki’s Phone, known in Korea as Pon and released here in the States through Tartan a few years back, is being remade. Mirovision and Imprint Entertainment are teaming up with the film’s original director for the American redo. Byung-ki intends to embark on principal photography in Korea later this year. Both production entities will be touting the project at Cannes.
The original film concerned a reporter who is forced to change her phone number after publishing a controversial article and begins to receive death threats. But when a friend’s daughter answers the new phone and exhibits increasingly bizarre behavior, the reporter begins to investigate a mysterious string of deaths that have haunted her phone number’s previous owners.
The original delivered some good heebie-jeebies, particularly in the casting of the young girl. But hasn’t horror moved beyond remaking J-horror and K-horror?
Rogue Pictures reportedly developed a remake before the rights were kicked over elsewhere.
Source: Screen Daily
