Actor Jung Woo-sung (Steel Rain, Illang: The Wolf Brigade) is about to venture into directing this year with the production of a new action drama tentatively-titled Agent Scholar. The Joseon-era action drama is being described as a spin on the famed Kingsman franchise with Jung developing through his Artists Company banner.
Those are really all the details we can accrue for Jung’s feature-length debut until further notice with more developments. In the meantime, it’ll be worth investing in seeing as Jung has already accrued some film experience behind the camera, and is no stranger to the action genre at that.
Jung initially came on my radar in the mid-two thousandsies when I bought a DVD copy of his first stint with director Kim Sung-su on Beat (1997). The two have worked together several times including on Musa The Warrior (2001), and in recent memory on Asura: The City Of Madness (2016).
Separately, the Kingsman franchise is already underway with a third installment from director Matthew Vaughn, offsetting a prequel that looks at the origins of the Kingsman world created by Mark Millar.
Taking into account the Kingsman narrative, it’ll be cool to see what becomes of Agent Scholar and the Joseon-era spy action and spectacle to come. In the meantime, the actor is also inbound with legal drama, Innocent Witness, slated for later this year. (KoBiz)