Hollywood to remake Takashi Miike’s One Missed Call

OneMissedCall.jpgA while ago I watched a Korean movie called Phone, in which a reporter has her mobile phone number changed in order to hide from a gang who she has exposed in a newspaper article. Unfortunately for her the phone number has a past, and the past keeps reaching out to the owners of the number. It’s a genuinely creepy movie, and really does get to you, with the most excellent of ending sequences.

So when I heard the storyline to the Takashi Miike movie One missed call I thought they were perhaps following the fashion for Korean remakes, but it appears I was wrong. Instantly I’ve gone and added this to my DVD rental list (currently standing at 148 movies!), and I’ve increased the priority on this so I can see it before they remake it.

That’s the news from MovieWeb, that the rights to the Miike movie have been snapped up and the Hollywood remake monster is on the move.

According to Variety, Intermedia has paired with Kadakowa USA to produce and finance an English-language remake of the Japanese horror hit One Missed Call.

In the picture, a college student fails to answer a cell phone call because she doesn’t recognize the caller’s ringtone. Later, when she plays the message, the time stamp is three days in the future and she hears her own voice as she’s being killed.

Kadakowa Pictures USA is part of the publishing company Kadakowa Shoten which has been involved in the remakes for The Ring and Grudge series, Shall we dance (oh please, let’s not) and Dark Water – watch out for this one.

Interestingly the sequel for the original opened only two weeks ago and grossed over $6 million, so should we expect the second to be bought up after the first has completed it’s opening weekend?

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34 thoughts on “Hollywood to remake Takashi Miike’s One Missed Call

  1. if u guys said those japanese flicks were not as gud as feng shui ,excuse me hollywood every japanese horror movie tht u guys said were lousy had been remake by hollywood n it has done well in the b ox office

  2. r u guys from the philipines?i dun understand y u guys are so supportive for feng shui.pardon me i find feng shui is a piece of ‘shit’,if u guys thinks tht i m a spoiler or flamer,MARK my WORDS hollywood will NEVA remake FENG SHUI as it is not EVEN as scary as a zombie flick like resident evil n it has a lame plot!

  3. Hey Amir!
    Remember me? I’m your High School friend!
    Anyway I’m here in the States right now…
    I miss all our classmates…
    Seen Feng Shui by Kris Aquino? It’s really great!!! And One Miss Call??? Never heard of it but I’ll watch for it… See ya this Christmas Amir!!

  4. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
    that feng dhui is so scary!

  5. Hoy John Knight!
    Tuod gid nga tupad mo c Kris?!?
    Hindi abi ko mapati!
    Tupad ko man abi cya!
    Guwapa gid cya ba!!
    Tuod! Nami-nami pa gid ang Feng Shui!!
    mas nami pa kaysa sa The Ring or The Grudge!!!
    As in!!!!

  6. hey simone may i know where you came from?????
    do you really like this movie???
    well actually I never heard of it…..
    maybe its really cool as you said

  7. hey simone may i know where you came from?????
    do you really like this movie???
    well actually I never heard of it…..
    maybe its really cool as you said

  8. Hey everyone!
    You should watch out for my horror film… Feng Shui! It’s really great. Really!!!
    But I really look scary in the film though… but I’m still beautiful there!
    Really!!! Am I CORRECT?!?

  9. hi im from japan. ive seen that feng shui – yeah really great! especially the wicked ending-pretty scary than the ring or any of our horror films-really……

  10. feng shui the best talaga
    no match ang the grudge and the ring….
    missed call??????what????????
    never heard of it…….
    hindi kasi sikat e…….

  11. Feng Shui is a Filipno Horror film and it is really scary- hope it will be remake too for The ring and the Grudge is no match for it even one missed call-really….

  12. Feng Shui is aFilipno Horror film and it is really scary- hope it will be remake too for The ring and the Grudge is no match for it evan one missed call-really….

  13. where can i find the ringtone from one missed call? the one the killer uses to all her victims? i have been looking for it all day long..please help me :)

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