Colin Firth declines role in Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake

Since that Oscar win, the offers have been pouring in for , and it’s now official that Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake is not on his ‘accept’ list

Casting the charm-drenched Colin Firth as a tormenting, torturing villain might sound to some as wise as getting Hugh Grant to play an inner city gang leader, but we’ve always thought there was a darker, vicious quality underneath Firth’s gallant Brit persona.

We’ll have to wait for another role to find out though, as it’s been announced the actor has turned down the role of the villain in Spike Lee’s remake of revenge thriller, Oldboy.

Lee has Josh Brolin confirmed for the lead, that of a man who’s imprisoned for years without knowing the reason, and who then decides to hunt down his former captors upon release. Who exactly will be doing the imprisoning and torturing is now a question mark, with Firth having declined.

Firth is currently filming the not particularly enticing Arthur Newman, Golf Pro, before starring alongside Rachel Weisz in WWII PoW drama The Railway Man, then returning as Mark Darcy in the third Bridget Jones story, Bridget Jones’s Baby.