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Following his Hollywood debut earlier this year, the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last Stand, Korean genre auteur KIM Jee-woon has been offered a new directing gig in tinseltown. This time, the revered filmmaker will tackle Coward, an adaptation of the first entry in Ed Brubaker’s comic book crime story compilation ‘Criminal’, which earned an Eisner award for best new series in 2007.

 

The project was originally being prepped with David Slade in director’s chair back in 2011 but was put on hold when the filmmaker bowed out. Brubaker adapted his own work and now that the project is back on track, he’s on board again to tweak his script for the new director. The writer, in an interview for MTV, expressed his surprise and pleasure when KIM’s name came up on a list of potential directors for the project. In particular, he singled out the filmmaker’s 2005 work A Bittersweet Life, which he felt is a great stylistic match for his comic book series.

 

Brubaker and KIM have already had several meetings and the film will be produced by Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howel (previous works include Blue Valentine) from Electric City Entertainment. KIM is currently at the Busan International Film Festival to promote his new film The X and to take part in the Asian Project Market with Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, another project he’s working on.