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  • Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Mickey 17’ to launch on March 2024

    By Express News Service

    Warner Bros, on Tuesday, introduced the discharge date of its upcoming movie Mickey 17, starring actor Robert Pattinson. The movie is directed by Bong Joon Ho and can mark the director’s first launch after his award-winning movie Parasite. Mickey 17 is about to launch in theatres on March 29, 2024.

    The movie is at present in manufacturing and is directed, produced and scripted by the filmmaker. Mickey 17 is predicated on the science fiction novel Mickey 7  by Edward Ashton. Starring Robert within the titular position, Mickey 17 additionally stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.

    The movie is produced by Plan B Entertainment, Dooho Choi of Kate Street Picture Company, and Bong Joon Ho below his Offscreen, Inc banner. 

    Mickey 17 is shot by cinematographer Darius Khondji, with manufacturing design by Fiona Crombie. Jinmo Yang who has labored in Parasite would be the editor of this movie as effectively. The music is by composer Jae-il Jung, who has additionally labored in Parasite. Mickey 17 will likely be launched worldwide by Warner Bros Pictures.

    Warner Bros, on Tuesday, introduced the discharge date of its upcoming movie Mickey 17, starring actor Robert Pattinson. The movie is directed by Bong Joon Ho and can mark the director’s first launch after his award-winning movie Parasite. Mickey 17 is about to launch in theatres on March 29, 2024.

    The movie is at present in manufacturing and is directed, produced and scripted by the filmmaker. Mickey 17 is predicated on the science fiction novel Mickey 7  by Edward Ashton. Starring Robert within the titular position, Mickey 17 additionally stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.

    The movie is produced by Plan B Entertainment, Dooho Choi of Kate Street Picture Company, and Bong Joon Ho below his Offscreen, Inc banner. 

    Mickey 17 is shot by cinematographer Darius Khondji, with manufacturing design by Fiona Crombie. Jinmo Yang who has labored in Parasite would be the editor of this movie as effectively. The music is by composer Jae-il Jung, who has additionally labored in Parasite. Mickey 17 will likely be launched worldwide by Warner Bros Pictures.

  • Steven Yeun joins forged of Bong Joon-Ho’s subsequent characteristic movie

    Actor Steven Yeun is about to reunite with Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho for the director’s newest characteristic undertaking. Yeun, who labored with Bong on his 2017 movie Okja, has joined the forged of the filmmaker’s upcoming sci-fi thriller, arrange at Warner Bros, as per The Hollywood Reporter.

    In the untitled undertaking, the 38-year-old actor will characteristic alongside Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette. The movie relies on writer Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey7, which was revealed in February, and facilities on Mickey7, a person on an expedition to colonise the ice world Niflheim.

    This expendable worker takes jobs too dangerous for anybody else, and when he dies, he regenerates as a clone with most of his recollections intact. When Mickey7 is presumed lifeless, he returns to the mission’s base solely to see {that a} new clone, Mickey8, has taken his place, based on the movie’s official description.

    Bong may even produce the undertaking through his manufacturing banner Offscreen alongside Dooho Choi for Kate Street Picture Company and Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B, which produced Okja.

    Yeun, who was nominated for an Oscar for his efficiency in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, will subsequent be seen in Jordan Peele’s thriller Nope, starring reverse Keke Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya.

    He may even be seen in Netflix comedy Beef with Ali Wong.

  • Bong Joon-ho to workforce up with Robert Pattinson on sci-fi movie

    By Express News Service

    Robert Pattinson may fit with Parasite director Bong Joon-ho on his subsequent movie in response to stories. The director is ready to work on a sci-fi movie that’s to be produced by Warner Bros. It can also be reported that Bong Joon-ho will write the as but untitled challenge.

    Further, it is usually speculated that the movie might be based mostly on an upcoming novel by Edward Ashton titled Mickey7. It is being hyped as Andy Wier’s The Martian meets Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter as it’s a couple of man on an expedition to colonise Niflheim, which is an ice world.

    The e-book is predicted to be printed within the first quarter of the yr by St. Martin, an imprint of Macmillan. Bong will produce through Offscreen with Dooho Choi for Kate Street Picture Company and Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B, which produced his Netflix movie, Okja. Peter Dodd will oversee the studio.

    Meanwhile, Pattinson will subsequent be seen in DC’s The Batman, additionally produced by Warner Bros and directed by Matt Reeves. He will play the titular function within the movie that’s scheduled to be out on March 4. 

  • Bong Joon-ho to direct his subsequent movie for Warner Bros, Robert Pattinson in talks to star 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Nearly two years after the record-breaking success of “Parasite”, Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho appears to have discovered his subsequent movie which is anticipated to characteristic “The Batman” star Robert Pattinson.

    Sources instructed Deadline that Bong will write and direct an untitled movie primarily based on Edward Ashton’s upcoming novel “Mickey7” for studio Warner Bros.

    The director will even again the challenge by way of his manufacturing banner Offscreen alongside Dooho Choi for Kate Street Picture Company and Plan B.

    The novel, to be revealed in 2022 by Macmillan’s imprint St Martin, follows Mickey7, who’s an Expendable: a disposable worker on a human expedition despatched to colonise the ice world Niflheim.

    “Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous — even suicidal — the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it,” reads the synopsis of the guide.

    While the movie can be impressed by the novel, sources mentioned that given Bong’s model of working with diversifications, his model could be totally different from the supply materials.

    His 2013 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie “Snowpiercer” was primarily based on the French graphic local weather fiction novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette.

    According to Deadline, creator Ashton offered the manuscript for the unpublished guide to Bong in the direction of the top of 2021.

    The acclaimed filmmaker grew within the story and have become loosely connected to the challenge late final yr.

    It is claimed Bong met a number of the most promising Hollywood stars earlier than he zeroed in on Pattinson after assembly him.

    “Parasite” swept the 2019 Oscars, together with the most effective image and finest director wins, a primary for a Korean-language movie.

    Following an HBO restricted sequence primarily based on the movie within the works with Bong government producing alongside Adam McKay, this movie would be the South Korean filmmaker’s second collaboration with WarnerMedia.

    Pattinson’s subsequent “The Batman” is a Warner Bros movie, which is slated to be launched on March 4.

    Peter Dodd is overseeing for the studio.

  • Sharon Choi, Bong Joon-ho’s interpreter for 2020 awards run, has ‘revised’ subtitles of Squid Game’ 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Sharon Choi, the star-interpreter for South Korean director Bong Joon-ho throughout the dream award season of “Parasite” final 12 months, on Thursday, October 14, 2021, mentioned she has “revised some of the subtitles” of Netflix’s superhit Korean language sequence “Squid Game”.

    The growth comes days after some viewers on social media criticised the nine-part survival drama for its alleged flawed interpretation of dialogues from Korean to English.

    Choi, who goes by her Korean identify Sha-sung Choi on Instagram, now shares the subtitles credit with authentic subtitles author Eun-sook Yoon.

    “I revised some of the subtitles for Squid Game. The actual subtitles (not CC) were not perfect but not as horrendous as some people said,” Choi, a budding filmmaker, wrote on her Instagram Story.

    Making a case for subtitle writers, she additional appealed to the viewers to contemplate an essential issue like “readability” or the character depend seen onscreen that should hold tempo with the shifting photographs.

    “Please remember subtitles are never perfect because readability aka character count is also a huge factor,” she additional wrote alongside an image of the subtitles translation credit of the present’s first episode up to date to “Eun-sook Yoon, Sharon Choi”.

    Last 12 months, Choi had garnered quite a lot of reward and a spotlight for her fast and to-the-point translations for Bong, the Oscar-winning “Parasite” director, for the reason that genre-defying movie began travelling to worldwide movie festivals and award ceremonies.

    Netflix on Wednesday introduced that “Squid Game”, directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, has turn out to be its “biggest series launch” until date after the sequence hit the mark of 111 million views in lower than a month since its debut on September 17, 2021.

    The present follows 456 individuals scuffling with debt in Seoul who signal on to play a sequence of lethal competitions based mostly on Korean youngsters’s video games, the winner of which can obtain 45.6 billion gained (USD 38 million).

    It stars Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-jun, Jung Ho-yeon, O Yeong-su, Heo Sung-tae, Anupam Tripathi, and Kim Joo-ryoung.

  • Bong Joon-ho to helm Korean animation set within the deep sea

    By Express News Service
    Following his Oscar-award successful Parasite, Bong Joon-ho might be directing a Korean animation movie for the manufacturing firm 4th Creative Party, which has labored on visible results for The Host, Snowpiercer, Okja, Oldboy, Stoker, and The Handmaiden.

    It was beforehand mentioned that he was engaged on each a Korean-language undertaking with a mix of horror and motion and an English movie based mostly on an undisclosed occasion that occurred in 2016.

    Several experiences state that the totally CGI animated characteristic might be a deep-sea journey, that includes water creatures and people.   The story will reportedly comply with an invertebrate deep-sea fish who believes he’s affected by spinal disk herniation. According to experiences, the director has already finalised the voice forged however hasn’t disclosed any names. 

  • Bong Joon Ho’s HBO ‘Parasite’ collection an unique story set in movie’s universe

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” collection at HBO will likely be an unique story set within the Oscar-winning movie’s universe and never a remake.

    Bong had teamed up with producer-writer Adam McKay and HBO for a TV adaptation of the movie simply earlier than its historic triumph on the Academy Awards the place it turned the primary South Korean movie to win the Best Picture Oscar, reported Collider.

    McKay, who’s finest identified for HBO’s Emmy-winning present “Succession,” not too long ago appeared on MTV’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast to verify that the work on the collection was in full velocity.

    “We’re just having the best time. We’ve just staffed up with an incredible writers’ room. I basically outlined the series with director Bong during the quarantine, with him overseeing,” McKay mentioned.

    The producer mentioned that the HBO collection won’t be a remake of Bong’s darkish thriller on the class-divide in South Korea.

    “It’s an original series. It’s in the same universe as the feature, but it’s an original story that lives in that same world.” McKay mentioned he was honoured to be anyplace close to the orbit of the director, identified for worldwide classics like “Memories of Murder”, “Mother” and “Okja” to call a couple of.

    “Occasionally in life, you get very lucky, and for me to get to work anywhere near director Bong’s orbit ” often, after I hear folks say ‘I’m honored,’ it feels like bull**** to me, however I’m legitimately honored.

    And having a blast.”

  • Bong Joon Ho was very encouraging, says ‘Minari’ director Lee Isaac Chung

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: “Minari” director Lee Isaac Chung says getting praised by any person with as sturdy a watch for element as Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho was a “real treat”.

    Lee spoke to the “Parasite” filmmaker over a cellphone name and although he was initially nervous, he was elated when he came upon that Bong appreciated his movie.

    “I feel like he was very happy for us and he’s very encouraging. I’m so glad he likes the movie. That’s a real treat for me. He has a very strong eye for detail. I was nervous talking to him but I was so glad that he picked up on a lot of details that excited me about the film,” the filmmaker informed PTI throughout a digital roundtable with worldwide journalists.

    Lee, 42, did not watch “Parasite” whereas he was enhancing “Minari” as he was afraid that it will find yourself influencing him.

    He waited till he was finished enhancing his film to lastly watch the film.

    “And I was blown away by what he (Bong) did (in the movie). I told him, as we were on that call together, that he made the perfect movie.”

    While “Parasite” was a darkish satire on the rich-poor divide in South Korea, Lee’s semi-autobiographical drama comes from a extra private area.

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    It revolves round Jacob (Steven Yeun), a youn Korean-American father who alongside along with his spouse and two youngsters strikes from California to a farm in rural Arkansas in quest of their American dream in Eighties.

    Predominantly in Korean language and slated to be launched in Indian theatres by PVR Pictures on April 16, the movie has emerged as one of many front-runners on this 12 months’s Hollywood award season.

    “Minari” is vying for six Oscars on the 93rd Academy Awards, together with greatest image, greatest director, greatest actor (Yeun), and the perfect supporting actress (Youn Yuh-jung).

    It has already received the perfect foreign-language Golden Globe and the best-supporting actress BAFTA for Youn.

    Lee is stunned by the extraordinary journey the mission, which was a low finances movie and a “stressful shoot” for him, has had.

    “I had no idea any of this would happen. It’s been a wild ride and I have been touched by audiences who are connecting with this film,” he mentioned.

    There was a robust echo of the previous as Lee started filming “Minari.

    The director remembers that after they moved to Arkansas within the 80s, it was the time of a fantastic farm disaster in America, and whereas he was prepping for the movie, he learn information tales that there was a risk that it was taking place once more.

    “So I felt like there’s something happening in which there’s a cycle that’s happening for me on a personal level and then perhaps in our country in which farming, and also immigration was becoming quite an issue, and it continues to be an issue now,” he mentioned.

    Lee additionally believes that the ’80s period someway captures one thing of the current.

    “We couldn’t have imagined that the pandemic would raise another echo of what’s happening in the story, which is a family having to come together due to suffering and due to catastrophe in a way,” the director mentioned, explaining that the story emerged from a private area however someway discovered “more echoes” alongside the best way.

    “That has been the character of this mission.

    Somehow, we’re submitting to one thing within the artistic means of discovering new issues as we go, I suppose,” he added.

    While writing Jacob’s character, Lee thought quite a bit in regards to the cinema of American display screen icon James Dean as he felt he needed somebody like that for the position.

    “An vital theme that I considered whereas I used to be writing Jacob was a scene from ‘East of Eden’ the place James Dean discovers that his crops are rising, after which he runs round within the discipline and rolls within the grime.

    He does one thing related in ‘Giant’ when he discovers oil, there’s this huge celebration.

    “I keep in mind feeling like that is the type of Jacob that I would like, and particularly for the scene the place he discovers water and the scenes when he will get the tractor and when farming appears to be going his means.

    I did not have any particular actor.

    But lo and behold, I really feel like I discovered James Dean in Steven.

    ” The director said he was surprised when Yeun, a major Hollywood Korean-American star with credits such as “The Walking Dead” and “Burning”, additionally introduced up Dean throughout their dialogue.

    “I keep in mind actually being floored when he introduced it up as a result of that was in my thoughts as I used to be writing.

    So it was nice that we obtained to come back collectively on this and to create these characters collectively,” Lee mentioned.

    The movie additionally options Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho and Will Patton.

  • Parasite director Bong Joon Ho to go Venice Film Festival jury

    Parasite director Bong Joon Ho has been chosen as jury president of the 78th Venice International Film Festival, organizers mentioned Friday. The Oscar-winner will preside over seven jurors handy out the pageant’s prime awards, together with the celebrated Golden Lion. He’ll be the primary South Korean to carry the publish.
    In a press release, the director mentioned he’s, “Honored to be woven into its beautiful cinematic tradition. As president of the jury — and more importantly as a perpetual cinephile — I’m ready to admire and applaud all the great films selected by the festival. I’m filled with genuine hope and excitement.”
    Festival director Alberto Barbera remarked upon the historic nature of the choice.
    “We are immensely grateful to him for having agreed to put his passion as a cinephile attentive, inquisitive and unprejudiced, at the service of our festival,” Barbera mentioned. “The decision to entrust the Jury to a Korean filmmaker, for the first time in the festival’s history, is also confirmation that the Venetian event embraces the cinema of the entire world, and that directors from every country know they can consider Venice their second home.”

    The Venice Film Festival was one of many solely main movie festivals to proceed in particular person final yr amid the pandemic. The 78th version is ready to run from Sept. 1-11.