From the mouth of director Bong Joon-ho himself, Universal Studios ahs apparently purchases the rights to the Korean monster masterpiece ‘The Host’ and they intend to remake the popular film with it’s American audience in mind. AKA, dumb it down and ruin it like most of their remakes? Well, hopefully not…

From SciFi.com: “Maybe three or four years down the line, if The Host [remake] comes out, and there’s a cool director who takes it on and makes it a real great film, then I’d be very happy,” Bong said in an interview, through a translator. “On the other hand, if it’s just crap, I think I’d be happy, too, because then people would be like, ‘Oh, yeah, Bong’s original was really good.’ So, for me, it’s a win-win situation. But Universal has a tradition of doing horror and creature films, so I anticipate that they will do a great film.”

[source: SciFi.com]