District 9's Sharlto Copley Offered The Villain Role In Spike Lee's Oldboy

"District 9" star Sharlto Copley has been offered the villain role in Spike Lee's "Oldboy" and is in early talks to join Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen in Mandate Pictures' revenge thriller. Based on Chan-wook Park's South Korean film, "Oldboy" stars Brolin as a man who is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years for unknown reasons. When inexplicably released, he sets out to find out who held him hostage and why. Copley is in early talks to play a mysterious billionaire out to destroy the protag's life, while Olsen will play a caseworker who helps Brolin's character investigate the past.