INSIDE MEN Director’s 70s Crime Thriller
Top Korean thespian
SONG Kang-ho has signed on to play the lead in a new thriller from
WOO Min-ho, the director of
Inside Men (2015).
Drug King, a period thriller, is now one among three upcoming projects for the busy star.
Drug King will feature SONG playing a man putting together a drug empire in Busan in the 1970s. The project will go before cameras at some point in the first half of next year, after SONG completes principal photography on his new thriller Fifth Column, which is expected to begin shooting this month.
WOO’s
Inside Men was a major smash last year, drawing 7.07 million viewers on its original release, and a further 2.08 million spectators when a director’s cut was released a few months later. Prior to
Inside Men, WOO made the revenge thriller
Man Of Vendetta (2010) and the action-thriller
The Spies (2012).