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- HUR Jin-ho Reads Up on Assassination Thriller THE DESIGNERS
- by Pierce Conran / May 31, 2017
- Director Will Shoot Different Project While Developing Literary Adaptation
Director HUR Jin-ho has signed on to adapt the 2010 Korean novel The Designers for the big screen. The film update of KIM Eon-soo’s second novel, which was the recipient of the 12th Culture Neighborhood Literary Prize, will be produced by Whale Pictures.The Designers is a story about people who are commissioned to design people’s deaths and the assassins who carry the plans out. The premise presupposes that these murders were behind several prominent assassinations in history, including during the Japanese Colonial Period and focuses on a young assassin child and a Japanese woman who lost her father to one of these designed plots. Since its release, the book has attracted attention for its strong dramatic composition and filmic style.While HUR will work in conjunction with Whale Pictures, which holds the copyright of the novel, on development and pre-production, the project will not be the director’s immediate follow-up to last year’s period drama success The Last Princess (2016). HUR will first tackle another project among several that he is currently considering.HUR is considered one of the foremost directors in Korea, particularly in the melodrama genre, having helmed modern classics such as Christmas in August (1998) and One Fine Spring Day (2001). Last summer, The Last Princess became his greatest commercial success when it welcomed 5.6 million viewers (USD 39.64 million).
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