Sharlto Copley Confirmed As The Villain In Spike Lee's Oldboy, Joins The Cast Of Open Grave

The search for an actor to play a villain has been a tough one. Many
great names have been asked to join the production, but each one of them
turned it down due to scheduling or other reasons. At one point or
another we reported that Christian Bale, Colin Firth and Clive Owen were
all offered and then rejected offers. The search, however, is over now
that Sharlto Copley has officially signed on.



It was first reported two weeks ago that Copley had been offered the part, but now Deadline
says that the role is his. The South African actor will be working
alongside Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen as well as director Spike Lee.
The movie follows a man named Joe Douchett (Brolin) who is mysteriously
kidnapped and held captive for 15 years. One day he is released, given
some money and a call phone, and goes on the hunt for the person who
destroyed his life. Copley will be playing Adrian Pryce, the billionaire
who organizes the whole plot. The script was written by Mark
Protosevich.



But that's not the only piece of good news that Copley has received
today. The same new report says that the actor has landed a role in
Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s Open Grave. He will play a man who one
day wakes up under a pile of dead bodies and no memory of how he got
there. Slowly he begins to experience flashbacks that rebuild what
happened in the missing time and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Lopez-Gallego last directed the found-footage horror film Apollo 18.