It seems that the top division of the South Korean film industry – bless it – continues to be obsessed with bringing us joy. This is, at least, what is extracted from the announcement of the Na Hong-Jin’s latest feature filmwho will flirt with the language of Shakespeare at the hands of an international cast that will combine local and European stars under a house brand premise.
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As reported exclusively by Deadline, the director and screenwriter of those three gems of action thriller and terror that are ‘The Chaser’, ‘The Yellow Sea’ and ‘The Stranger’ will direct Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander —who already worked together on ‘The light between the oceans’— in ‘Hope’; Na’s first production since 2016 if we exclude his work as a screenwriter on ‘The Medium’ and the short film ‘Faith’, released this year.
Accompanying the duo made up of the German and the Swedish will be Hoyeon, the model turned actress from Seoul who broke into the media in style with ‘The Squid Game’ and who has yet to release the series ‘Disclamer’ with Cate Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen. In this way, it is expected that the film, which It will start shooting at the end of this year. in the Asian country, combine English and Korean in your dialogues.
To finish making the project even more appealing, it has transpired that Hong Kyung-pyo will serve as director of photography. after dazzling with his work in titles such as ‘Parasites’, ‘Broker’, ‘Burning’, ‘Niebla’ or ‘Snowpiercer’; assuming ‘Hope’ his second collaboration with Na Hong-jin after the aforementioned ‘The Stranger’. Little more can be asked for.
According to the source, the film will follow the residents of Hopo, where a mysterious discovery takes place on the outskirts of the remote port city. Before long, the inhabitants will find themselves waging a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before. I, for the moment, do not need anything else to mark ‘Hope’, which does not have a release date yetas one of the most anticipated lengths for the next season.
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