Despite becoming famous on an international level just recently, though the huge success of “Squid Game” which also just netted him an Emmy, Lee Jung-jae has actually been popular in S. Korea for decades, having a career that started in the 90s, and came to include a number of the most successful blockbusters in the country, not to mention a couple of masterpieces. As a tribute to a great actor, and on the occasion of the Emmy, we decided to make a list of 10 of his works that definitely deserve a look, in chronological order.
1. An Affair (1998) by Lee Jae-yong
The story focuses on Seo-hyun, a late-thirties housewife who has a settled life, a successful architect husband and a loving son. Her day is a set of routines, which is all thrown into disarray by the arrival of Woo-in, her younger sister’s fiancé. When her sister misses her flight from LA to Seoul,...
1. An Affair (1998) by Lee Jae-yong
The story focuses on Seo-hyun, a late-thirties housewife who has a settled life, a successful architect husband and a loving son. Her day is a set of routines, which is all thrown into disarray by the arrival of Woo-in, her younger sister’s fiancé. When her sister misses her flight from LA to Seoul,...
- 9/14/2022
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
“Squid Game” star Lee Jung-Jae has been cast as the male lead in Disney+’s upcoming “Star Wars” show “The Acolyte,” alongside previously announced star Amandla Stenberg.
Going farther back in time than any live-action “Star Wars” project before it, “The Acolyte” will take place in the last days of the High Republic Era, centuries before “The Phantom Menace,” where the thought-to-be eradicated Siths have returned. “Russian Doll” co-creator Leslye Headland will be showrunning.
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Speaking to TheWrap last year, Headland — who is the first queer woman to be behind a “Star Wars” title — said “The Phantom Menace” appealed to her upon its release, when she was first discovering her sexuality.
“I actually was very intrigued by why George Lucas had started us at that particular point. I kind of wondered, but what happened to lead up to this? That...
Going farther back in time than any live-action “Star Wars” project before it, “The Acolyte” will take place in the last days of the High Republic Era, centuries before “The Phantom Menace,” where the thought-to-be eradicated Siths have returned. “Russian Doll” co-creator Leslye Headland will be showrunning.
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Speaking to TheWrap last year, Headland — who is the first queer woman to be behind a “Star Wars” title — said “The Phantom Menace” appealed to her upon its release, when she was first discovering her sexuality.
“I actually was very intrigued by why George Lucas had started us at that particular point. I kind of wondered, but what happened to lead up to this? That...
- 9/8/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its In Conversation With… series, to be headlined with appearances by Damien Chazelle, Viola Davis and Eddie Redmayne.
Oscar-winning writer-director Chazelle will discuss his career that stretches from Whiplash and La La Land to his upcoming film Babylon, which stars Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.
Davis and director Gina Prince-Bythewood will take part in their own informal conversation about their artistic drive and Hollywood careers as their collaboration on The Woman King has a world bow in Toronto next month. Davis is also known for her work on the TV series How to Get Away With Murder and movies like Fences, Widows, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and action-thriller The Old Guard.
Eddie Redmayne, who will be at TIFF this year with My Policeman, will also be on hand to talk about his movie career,...
Oscar-winning writer-director Chazelle will discuss his career that stretches from Whiplash and La La Land to his upcoming film Babylon, which stars Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.
Davis and director Gina Prince-Bythewood will take part in their own informal conversation about their artistic drive and Hollywood careers as their collaboration on The Woman King has a world bow in Toronto next month. Davis is also known for her work on the TV series How to Get Away With Murder and movies like Fences, Widows, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and action-thriller The Old Guard.
Eddie Redmayne, who will be at TIFF this year with My Policeman, will also be on hand to talk about his movie career,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actors Jung Woo-sung and Hwang Jung-min are confirmed be teaming up once again with Kim Sung-su, the director of the hard-hitting “Asura: The City of Madness” for new project “Spring in Seoul”. They will be joined by Park Hae-joon, who was last seen in the Netflix horror film, “The 8th Night” and will also have an important role to play in the upcoming “Emergency Declaration”.
Not much is known about “Spring in Seoul” yet, except that it is “a movie based on a real event that shook modern Korean history in the late 1970s.” Other cast members are yet to be finalised. Kim Sung-soo’s previous directing credits also include “Beat”, “City of the Rising Sun” and “Musa”, all with Jung Woo-sung.
Production on “Spring in Seoul” is expected to crank in some point in February, 2022. This is one to keep a keen eye out for!
Not much is known about “Spring in Seoul” yet, except that it is “a movie based on a real event that shook modern Korean history in the late 1970s.” Other cast members are yet to be finalised. Kim Sung-soo’s previous directing credits also include “Beat”, “City of the Rising Sun” and “Musa”, all with Jung Woo-sung.
Production on “Spring in Seoul” is expected to crank in some point in February, 2022. This is one to keep a keen eye out for!
- 12/24/2021
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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