- Korean Film News
- SHIN Ha-kyun and LEE Kwang-soo Buddy Up for MY EXCEPTIONAL BROTHER
- by Pierce Conran / May 29, 2018
- ALMOST CHE Director Returns with New ComedySHIN Ha-kyun will team up with LEE Kwang-soo in the upcoming human comedy My Exceptional Brother (translated title). From director YOOK Sang-hyo, the film is expected to go into production in late May. In the film, SHIN will play a man with a weak body and a brilliant mind while his younger brother, of the strong body and the weak mind, will be played by LEE.Known for his role in modern Korean classics such as PARK Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and JANG Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet (2003), SHIN has continued to play memorable characters on screen. His most recent forays onto the big screen were in JUNG Byoung-gil’s Cannes-invited action title The Villainess (2017) and LEE Byoung-heon’s affair comedy What a Man Wants, released last month.A character actor in the film that later found his fame on the small screen, LEE Kwang-soo has been finding his way back to the big screen. He featured in 2015’s Collective Invention and will next be seen alongside KWON Sang-woo and SUNG Dong-il in E.oni’s comedy-thriller sequel The Accidental Detective 2: In Action, which hits screens next month.Director YOOK previously helmed the gangster comedy sequel Hi, Dharma 2 -Showdown In Seoul (2004) as well as the KIM In-kwon vehicles He's on Duty (2010) and Almost Che (2012). More recently he wrote the dramatization of IM Kwon-taek’s Revivre (2015).
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