- Korean Film News
- LEE Byung-hun, PARK Seo-jun and PARK Bo-young Move into CONCRETE UTOPIA
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 21, 2020
- New Disaster Action-Drama from VANISHING TIME Director
LEE Byung-hun, PARK Seo-jun and PARK Bo-young will be joining forces for the upcoming disaster thriller Concrete Utopia (working title), as confirmed by Lotte Entertainment. UM Tae-hwa, the director of VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED (2016), will helm the project.UM’s new film will chronicle the lives of survivors in a city that has been destroyed by a major earthquake. LEE Byung-hun will play Young-tak, a man who leads the defense of an apartment block containing survivors. PARK Seo-jun is on board as salaryman Min-sun, who starts to help Young-taek, while PARK Bo-young will appear as Min-su’s wife Myung-hwa, a former nurse who tends to the injured.Currently filming Emergency Declaration (translated title) with SONG Kang-ho and JEON Do-yeon, another disaster film, LEE is one of Korea’s top stars whose recent hit credits include Inside Men (2015), Master (2016), ASHFALL (2019) and this year’s The Man Standing Next.PARK Seo-jun is known for Midnight Runners (2017) and The Divine Fury (2019) and is currently shooting Dream (literal title) with Extreme Job (2019) director LEE Byoung-heon. PARK Bo-young appeared in the hit A Werewolf Boy (2012) and more recently in The Silenced (2015) and On Your Wedding Day (2018).Director UM debuted with the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) graduation project INGtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls (2013), before making his commercial debut with the fantasy drama VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED (2013), starring GANG Dong-won.Production on Concrete Utopia is currently slated to begin in March 2021.
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