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Korean prima Lee Byung-hun, known for his roles successful Squid Game and Park Chan-wook’s Korean Oscars submission No Other Choice, has signed up to prima successful Hive Media Corp’s martial arts action movie Nambeol (working title).
The project, which marks nan head debut of seasoned cinematogrpaher Lee Mo-gae, is described arsenic a “hard-boild martial arts action flick group successful nan early Joseon Dynasty”. The communicative revolves astir 9 warriors who recreation to Tsushima Island to rescue Korean captives kidnapped by Japanese pirates.
While not based connected humanities events, nan movie is group during a play erstwhile Korea struggled pinch predominant raids by Japanese pirates. History-inspired films person precocious been performing powerfully astatine nan Korean container agency pinch Showbox’s The King’s Warden, astir a Joseon king sent into exile, becoming nan highest-grossing Korean movie ever pinch much than $105M.
Lee Byung-hun will play nan leader of a group of warriors who leads a vulnerable ngo to prevention his people. The acclaimed character is presently moving connected Disney+ bid The Koreans, a reimagining of nan FX bid The Americans, and is besides known for his domiciled successful Netflix bid Squid Game. No Other Choice premiered astatine past year’s Venice movie show and selected arsenic Korea’s Oscars submission, though it didn’t make nan shortlist.
Lee Mo-gae, who is making his directorial debut pinch Nambeol, is known for his activity arsenic a cinematographer connected films including A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003), Asura: The City Of Madness (2016), 12.12: The Day (2023) and supernatural scary Exhuma (2024). His credits arsenic a DoP besides see films starring Lee Byung-hun including The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008) and I Saw The Devil (2010).
Hive Media Corp has antecedently worked pinch Lee Byung-hun connected Inside Men (2015) and The Man Standing Next (2020). Nambeol is presently successful pre-production and expected to commencement shooting successful nan 2nd half of 2026.
