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Imagine This Man As Marlon Brando's Son.

by Todd Brown, March 11, 2008 12:40 PM

So, what do you do after making a critically roasted by hugely successful film featuring dragons with rocket launchers on their backs? Well, if you're Korean comedian turned director Shim Hyung-rae you make yourself into the next Godfather. Really. The Dragon War director has just gotten the green light on his next project, a comedy titled The Last Godfather in which he will bring his popular comedy character Younggu to the big screen in a comedy of errors that will see him adopted by Don Corleone as the notorious Don's successor. Corleone? Played by the ghost of the late Marlon Brando, as manipulated and inserted through the wonders of CGI technology. I'm not making this up. It's really happening. I'm tempted to insert a joke about Brando's children and recreational narcotics here but shall refrain ...

 
 

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I can hear the lawyers in California sharpening their swords all the way from the East Coast. This is [i]dozens[/i] of lawsuits just waiting to happen.

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This guy seems to be like SKorea's Uwe Boll.