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‘Oldboy’ Star in Hunt of Psychopath in ‘Saw a Devil’
South Korean helmer Kim Ji-woon has cast Oldboy topliner Choi Min-sik and Korean Wave star Lee Byung-hun in thriller Saw a Devil. Lee, who was last seen in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, plays a man pursuing the psychopath, played by Choi, who killed his fiancee. Devil, which was formerly called Night in the Subtropics, begins lensing early February. The pic is Lee’s third film with Kim, following 2005’s A Bittersweet Life and 2008’s The Good, the Bad, the Weird, which both screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Choi’s last pic was Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells in 2008. His credits also include 2005’s Lady Vengeance, which was directed by Oldboy helmer Park Chan-wook.
Pictured: Choi Min-sik
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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