Man From Nowhere Getting Western Remake

New Line Cinema has taken on the remake rights to CJ Entertainment’s 2010 Korean blockbuster “The Man From Nowhere” according to Deadline.com.  Lee Jeong-beom directed the original movie which follows a quiet pawnshop keeper loner with a violent past who takes on a drug- and organ-trafficking ring to save a kid he has befriended.

The film opened at the top of the Korean box office in 2010 and held it for five weeks, becoming the year’s highest grossing Korean film.

Dimension Films originally acquired the property for a remake, but let it languish, the rights then returned to CJ who’ve now given it to New Line.