A decade ago, Park Chan-wook unleashed Oldboy, a revenge epic that captivated movie goers worldwide with its visceral violence and vision. It was almost instantly hailed as a modern classic upon release and although its high status in Asia remains, its impact on the Western front has been significantly less.

All that will hopefully change soon.

Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, 25th Hour) has long been in production with the American remake of the revenge thriller about a man (Josh Brolin) held in solitary confinement for twenty years who, upon his sudden release sets out to exact revenge on his captors. The story is of course a lot more than that simple premise and American audiences will get to know this film a lot more this coming week.

This is the first official poster following a teaser poster that came out in the thick of production; the first trailer will hit the web Wednesday.

Some sites are mentioning that this is a still from the film, but it certainly doesn’t look like one to me. While it certainly shows Brolin’s release from his prison, and it doesn’t look like an obvious artist’s impression of the film’s tone or themes or style, it also doesn’t have the feel of a screen cap.

In addition to the stylized brush-stroke look of the title (in Brolin’s handwriting), the thing that immediately caught my eye was the killer tagline. It’s a little long, but it really gets you thinking and properly teases and entices.

We’ll find out if the image on the poster is indeed a still or not when the film hits theaters October 25th, 2013.