Kim Jee-woon's First International Outing
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Korea's Kim Jee-woon is set to make his first international film. In conjunction with U.S producers the film will be a remake of Claude Sauted's Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971). KIM has steadily risen within the ranks of Korean film directors and his last film "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" (2008) has consolidated his success overseas. In addition, his 2003 thriller A Tale of Two Sisters has just had its international remake with the title The Uninvited. Kim Jee-woon is amongst a handful of directors like counterparts BONG Joong-ho and Park Chan-wook to be offered international deals.
The film based on the 1971 film with the English title of Max and the Junkmen is itself adapted from a novel. A firmly noir tale, complete with seedy cops immoral cops, thieves and a bank heist seems perfect for a director who already had huge success cementing his own brand of neo noir with "A Bittersweet Life" (2005). Max is a wealthy, amateur detective, obsessed with catching criminals and continually frustrated by those that escape. Angered by his failures he hatches a scheme to set up a group of petty criminals and ex convicts to rob a bank.
Director KIM has already finished the script and shooting will take place in Philadelphia. Given the need to create a dreary atmosphere filming is to begin in the winter of 2010.
David Oxenbridge (KOFIC)
The film based on the 1971 film with the English title of Max and the Junkmen is itself adapted from a novel. A firmly noir tale, complete with seedy cops immoral cops, thieves and a bank heist seems perfect for a director who already had huge success cementing his own brand of neo noir with "A Bittersweet Life" (2005). Max is a wealthy, amateur detective, obsessed with catching criminals and continually frustrated by those that escape. Angered by his failures he hatches a scheme to set up a group of petty criminals and ex convicts to rob a bank.
Director KIM has already finished the script and shooting will take place in Philadelphia. Given the need to create a dreary atmosphere filming is to begin in the winter of 2010.
David Oxenbridge (KOFIC)
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