EXCLUSIVE: Producers Esmail Corp (Mr Robotic) and Okay Interval Media (Manchester By The Sea) are teaming up with Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon (The Age Of Shadows) on an English and Korean-language film adaptation of novel The Gap.
Psychological thriller The Gap by Korean writer Hye-Younger Pyun charts the story of Ogi who wakes from a coma after inflicting a serious automotive accident that took his spouse’s life and left him paralyzed. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the lack of her solely baby. Ogi is uncared for and left alone in his mattress however quickly notices his mother-in-law of their deserted backyard, uprooting what his spouse had labored so arduous to plant, and obsessively digging bigger and bigger holes. When requested, she solutions solely that she is ending what her daughter began. As he tries to flee, Ogi discovers extra about his spouse and his personal position within the troubled state of their relationship.
Winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award and named by Time as one of many 12 months’s high thrillers, the novel has been in comparison with Stephen King’s Distress and Korean novel The Vegetarian.
We perceive the variation will probably be set between Korea and the U.S. with dialogue in English and Korean. Kim’s firm Anthology Studios will even produce, and the filmmaker is engaged on the script with Christopher Chen, who just lately scripted Okay Interval’s Sundance thriller The Unintentional Getaway Driver. Andy Sorgie is producing for Okay Interval Media.
Anthology is the Korean firm co-founded by Kim, former Warner Bros exec Jay Choi and Parasite star Track Kang-ho.
Style specialist Kim Jee-woon is thought for Cannes titles resembling Cobweb and The Good The Dangerous And The Bizarre in addition to Venice Movie Competition historic thriller The Age Of Shadows, which made greater than $50M globally. He made his English-language debut and solely English-language movie so far with 2013 motion pic The Final Stand starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Sam Esmail’s Mr Robotic and Homecoming outfit Esmail Corp just lately made Julia Roberts Netflix pic Depart The World Behind. Manchester By The Sea and Suspiria producer Okay Interval Media is in submit on thriller Caddo Lake with Dylan O’Brien.
