The gangster, the cop, the devil

• • • Sylvester Stallone to Remake South Korean Thriller ‘The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil’ South Korean film 'The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil' will get a Hollywood remake, the film's local production company BA Entertainment announced Monday. Balboa Productions, the studio launched by Sylvester Stallone, will helm the English-language adaptation of the crime thriller. South Korean film The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil will get a Hollywood remake, the film’s local production company BA Entertainment announced Monday. Balboa Productions, The remake will be jointly produced by Stallone; Braden Aftergood, who executive produced the Jeremy Renner thriller Wind River and co-founded Balboa Productions; Jang Won-seok, CEO of BA Entertainment; Chris S. Lee, CEO of B&C Group; and Don Lee, aka Ma Dong-seok, the Train to Busan star who plays the lead in the original South Korean film. B&C Group is the American management of Lee. Lee is slated to reprise his role as a gang boss in the remake. Before entering South Korean show biz relatively later than his peers, the 48-year-old is known to have worked as a trainer for such American mixed martial artists as Mark Coleman and Kevin Randleman. In The Gangster,Lee plays the titular gangster who survives a lethal attack by a serial killer. He forms an unlikely partnership with a cop (Lee Mu-yeol) to help track down the murderer (Kim Seong-gyu). “This partnership [between South Korea and the U.S.] is especially significant in that there has...