MUMBAI: Warner Bros has acquired the English language remaking rights of CJ Entertainment‘s South Korean hit Sympathy For Mr Vengeance.

Brian Tucker will write the screenplay of the story about two men who set out to avenge the deaths of their beloved women, only to discover that each killed the other‘s lover and in the end only one can have his vengeance.

PThe film is being produced by Bonaventura Pictures‘ Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian along with CJ Entertainment‘s Miky Lee and Ted Kim and Steven Schneider.

Sympathy For Mr Vengeance was the first in Park Chan-wook‘s now legendary Vengeance Trilogy films. CJ Entertainment is also working on Korean Wedding, an original romantic comedy set up at Lionsgate.