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Josh Brolin wanted 'Old Boy' blessing

Josh Brolin wanted to get Park Chan-wook's blessing before he agreed to sign up to the remake of 'Old Boy'.

The actor is to star alongside Elizabeth Olsen in a new version of Park's 2003 violent thriller - which is being directed by Spike Lee - but admitted he did have some reservations beforehand.

He said: "Spike Lee's doing 'Old Boy' and it's different and the same. I wrote an email to Park, who I really love, when I tried to get him to direct 'Jonah Hex'. I was like: 'If you're not completely into this, then we'll find something else to do together.'

"But then I said: 'I want your blessing to do 'Old Boy'.' He wrote back this beautiful letter and it said: 'I love remakes and I think it's great, just don't do it exactly like we did.'"

Josh (44) recently revealed the remake of 'Old Boy' will be "severely" violent.

He said: "I think we're going to go for it, I think we're going to give 1 000 percent to this one."