'Quantum of Solace' Director to 'Die Bad'

There's something different about you, Marc Forster. Don't tell me...you changed your haircut? No, that's not it; you've gone with the chrome dome since at least Monster's Ball. You've lost weight? No, that's not it. Oh, I've got it - you've completely changed your directorial style, going from quiet human dramas to more in-your-face flicks.The director of Finding Neverland, The Kite Runner, and Quantum of Solace (see?) is negotiating with Universal to remake the Korean film Die Bad, according to Variety, which also claims new It-writer Brad Ingelsby will crank out the script. Odds are, you've never heard of Die Bad, and if you have, odds are you call it by its non-translated title, Jukgeona hokeun nabbeugeona, because that's the sort of snooty arthouse elitist you are. What are you doing on the internet anyway, you snob? Go read The Economist in your free trade coffee shop and leave us alone.Die Bad is certainly a clever concept, though; it was comprised of four short films of different styles shot over the course of three years. The chapters - Rumble, Nightmare, Modern Man, and Die Bad - are loosely connected to tell the story of a gangster's rise to prominence and his fall from it. And usually, as we know from watching gangster flicks, these movies tend to conclude with that scene where the gangster packs all the stuff from his office into one cardboard box and says his last goodbyes to everyone in the office.Still, though, doesn't that sound really distinct and cool? Yeah, well, the remake will dispense with the separate chapters, and we suspect the separate themes and filmmaking styles prevalent in each, for a more traditional New York gangster movie. Or at least that's what it sounds like. Let's hope it's not just taking the plot points and making one slick narrative out of them. Boring.I dig Marc Forster and all, and I'm sure he's seen the original and thought he could bring something else to that story. But doesn't this sound like some producers came across the South Korean movie and said, "Now how can we dumb that down for Americans?"