Four of Korea's leading filmmakers are going global.
PARK Chan-wook and KIM Jee-woon are making their Hollywood debuts with big-budget genre films.
PARK is nearing completion of the Hitchcock-inspired thriller <Stoker>
and KIM is working on <The Last Stand>, which will be Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to the Hollywood action scene.
HUR Jin-ho has remade <Dangerous Liasons> in China, a film based on the classic French novel.
Finally, BONG Joon-ho started filming <Snow Piercer> last April in the Czech Republic, which will be Korea's biggest transnational co-production to date, with investors from France, Japan, and the U.S. on board.
Now, let's meet these directors and their respective projects.
Four of Korea's leading filmmakers are going global.PARK Chan-wook and KIM Jee-woon are making their Hollywood debuts with big-budget genre films.PARK is nearing completion of the Hitchcock-inspired thriller <Stoker>and KIM is working on <The Last Stand>, which will be Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to the Hollywood action scene.HUR Jin-ho has remade <Dangerous Liasons> in China, a film based on the classic French novel.Finally, BONG Joon-ho started filming <Snow Piercer> last April in the Czech Republic, which will be Korea's biggest transnational co-production to date, with investors from France, Japan, and the U.S. on board.Now, let's meet these directors and their respective projects.
