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BELIEVER Review: Lee Hae Young’s 2018 HK-Inspired Reimagining Is Preaches A Violent, Well-Crafted Gospel [Reprint/Revisal]
Most of the time, the narrative among film fans is that remakes suck. I don’t know if that’s the same consensus shared by middle-of-the-road types in audiences of Hollywood or international titles, but generally you will come across folks who don’t favor a lot of remakes and reboots for reasons all their own.
THE BATTLE: ROAR TO VICTORY: Don’t Miss The International Trailer To Won Shin-Yeon’s Action-Packed Epic
Won Shin-yeon’s latest thrilling war epic with The Battle: Roar To Victory, is poised for an August 7 release just around the corner. Time will tell if and when we’ll get some acquisition news but we have an international trailer currently making the rounds to help garner some eyes.
Won Shin-Yeon’s THE BATTLE: ROAR TO VICTORY Launches The First Official Teaser
Expect a blaze of period war heroics and spectacle amid high drama as the first footage is arisen from upcoming epic, The Battle: Roar To Victory, opening in August from Showbox. The film joins The Suspect and Memoir Of A Murderer director Won Shin-Yeon with a cast led by Luck-Key and A Taxi Driver actor Yu Hae-Jin, and Ryu Jun-Yeol whose latest corporate thriller, Money, is slated to screen for the New York Asian Film Festival this month.
Review: Lee Hae Young’s BELIEVER Preaches A Violent, Well-Crafted Gospel
(Release date, June 8)
BELIEVER Delivers A Smokin’ New Trailer For Lee Hae-Young’s DRUG WAR Remake
Detective Won-ho is determined to catch the infamous leader of Asia’s largest drug market, who is known only by the name, ‘Mr. LEE.’ While searching for Mr. LEE, Won-ho apprehends and eventually conspires with Rak, a lowly member of the drug cartel who seeks revenge against Mr. LEE. An endless dilemma between trust and suspicions begins.
South Korean DRUG WAR Remake Now Underway
Director Johnnie To’s 2012 film, Drug War, was a staunch and stark crime thriller with a compelling story, riveting characters and haunting finale. The film won a raft of awards and nominations around the world through 2014 next to its rave reviews at the time, now begging to see if its remake value stands with equal merit.
That litmus test is now being applied through the lens of Arahan: Jangpung Daejakjeon (2004) scribe, The Silenced (2015) helmer Lee Hae-young with production underway as his fourth feature film set for next year. Actors Cho Jin-woong (A Hard Day) and Ryu Jun-yeol (The King) will reimagine the respective roles as such, per To’s film, intially centered on a Hong Kong drug enforcement whose lead detective successfully captures a key witness – an elusive, conniving drug lord now forced to work with the police to infiltrate a bigger criminal empire or face the death penalty.
Also starring will be actors Cha Seung-won (Man On High Heels) and Kim Joo-hyuk (Confidential Assignment). Yong Film Inc. (The Handmaiden) is producing the film with Kidari Ent. (The Deal, The Chosen: Forbidden Cave), financing and distributing the film in South Korea. (KoBiz)
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