You won't be able to escape the name Kim Ji-Woon any time soon. The South Korean director, much like his colleague Park Chan-Wook, has been making the move over to Hollywood lately with Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Last Stand coming our way next year. He popped up on a lot of radars with his super violent thriller I Saw the Devil, but he's been a director of some renown on the world stage for years. It's almost like a right of passage for Korean filmmakers to see their best films given the American remake treatment(like Chan-Wook's Oldboy), and now Ji-Woon is getting his turn.
Deadline reports that Allen Hughes(Menace II Society) will direct a remake of A Bittersweet Life, the 2005 crime flick that helped put Ji-Woon on the map. The film follows a mob hitman who is tasked with killing the boss's wife and her lover. Instead he lets them go with the promise to never see one another again, and his leniency ends up causing major problems. Ji-Woon will oversee the project, which features a script by Anthony Peckham(Invictus).
Hughes just finished up with the crime noir Broken City with Mark Wahlberg, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Russell Crowe, so he's kindof on a roll right now.
