Arnold Schwarzenegger warned us he'd be back, but the ex-Governator's big action comeback as a small-town border sheriff in The Last Stand fizzled over the weekend with a tenth-place box office finish. Shame, because The Last Stand also marks a milestone for director Kim Jee-Woon, who makes his English-language debut with the tongue-in-cheek contemporary Western after building an eclectic resume in his native Korea including the horror pic A Tale of Two Sisters, the Eastern-Western The Good, The Bad, And The Weird, and the crossover thriller I Saw The Devil. Movieline spoke with Kim (via interpreter) about dipping his toes into Hollywood and his plans to put a Korean twist on Inrang, his upcoming adaptation of the anime Jin-Roh: Wolf Brigade.
Despite the language barrier your creative stamp is evident here, especially in your set pieces - but why make your Hollywood debut with an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie like The Last Stand?
After my film The Tale of Two Sisters I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because A Tale of Two Sisters was a horror film I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn?t interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion. To participate in those I felt a little rushed, but with The Last Stand I not only had the opportunity to work with Arnold, it was in the early stages of development so I was able to take my time to mold the script and the story and characters.
The Last Stand is a contemporary Western, and with The Good, The Bad, and The Weird you crafted an ode to the genre. How did you want to filter the Western film through your…
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