Kim Jee-woon’s A Bittersweet Life is one
of my all-time favorite movies. That fact alone is enough to get me interested
in anything else he ever does, but when that includes the likes of A
Tale of Two Sisters, I Saw the Devil, and
The Good, The Bad, The Weird, it doesn’t hurt matters at
all. For his next project, he’s teaming up with Warner Bros. for a movie called
Secret Agent.
Though Kim is partnering with WB, this is still going to be
a South Korean production, a first for the studio according to Variety. Most
known to American audiences for his Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The
Last Stand, Kim’s first English-language movie, Secret
Agent is a period piece set in the 1930s when Japan occupied Korea.
That doesn’t automatically sound like the director’s wheelhouse, but he’s
killed it across a wide swath of genres, from gonzo western to comedic
sci-fi/fantasy, so I have total faith.
Secret Agent is also putting together an
awesome cast. The film stars Song Kang-ho (Snowpiercer,
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Host, and
many more) and Yoo Gong (The Suspect). Production is
scheduled to begin this October. You have my permission to get excited now.
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