Hm, I wouldn't mind being lost at sea with these two. Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) is producing a new movie called Sea Fog, and he's scored the fabulous Kim Yoon-seok (Thieves, Wandeuki) to star. That man is just great in everything. Song Joong-ki (Nice Guy, A Werewolf Boy) is being tapped to join him, but that casting's not confirmed and he's got a lot of floating offers for movies right now, so we'll have to wait and see on that front.
Sea Fog will be be the directorial debut of Shim Sung-bo, the screenwriter of Bong Joon-ho's 2003 film Memories of Murder. It's an adaptation of a stage play of the same name, and tells the tale of a crew on a fishing boat that's fallen onto hard times, and begins to smuggle Joseon-jok (Koreans living in China) illegally across the border.
Ooh that sounds great, mostly because it's bringing up Hwanghae/Yellow Sea associations for me (which Kim Yoon-seok also starred in). The play was also a benchmark production of the theater group where Kim Yoon-seok got his start as an actor, so there are lots of personal links to the source material.
He'll play the captain of the commercially failing boat who decides to do the dangerous thing when he faces ruin, and puts his whole crew in jeopardy by choosing to become a smuggling vessel. The story will also tell the various tales of his crew members' lives, and will explore both the despair and the hope of life at sea.
Sea Fog starts shooting in September.
Via Osen, Star News
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