It’s kind of demoralizing to think that once a country finally starts making good movies, they’ll just be picked up by Hollywood and be remade, possibly by Paul Walker. Right now the hot country to rip of is South Korea, with Nic Cage already on the way to remaking the great Korean martial arts film Old Boy. Well, they’ve picked up another.

This time, it’s a movie called something unpronounceable, but translated the title is Joint Security Area. Right here is the spot where I should pretend of I’ve seen it and wax poetic about the joys of Korean cinema, pointing out how much better I am since I’ve seen the original and you’ll have to settle for the remake. But I haven’t seen it and I’m lousy at “let’s play pretend.” What I’ve found out from reading The Hollywood Reporter is that the original movie is a controversial drama about the North Korea/South Korea demilitarized zone. Ironically enough, it’s also a film by Chan-wook Park, the guy who came up with the aforementioned greatness of Old Boy. The remake has been optioned by screenwriter David Franzoni, who will also direct.

The thing I’m not quite getting here is you can possibly adapt a movie about the Korean border into an American flick. Hollywood Reporter indicates that he’s going to work it as a Mexico-US border flick involving immigration, but last I checked we weren’t the mortal enemies of Mexico and they didn’t have nuclear missles pointed at us. The two don’t come even remotely close to relating. I haven’t seen the movie and even I know that. Old Boy could’ve happened anywhere, but this doesn’t make a damn bit of sense. It sounds like it’ll turn into Canadian Bacon.