Mystery-Horror Marks Commercial Directing Debut for KIM Jin-won
Performers
SEO Yea-ji and
JIN Seon-kyu are set to join forces in the upcoming mystery-horror
Blackout. From director
KIM Jin-won, helming a commercial feature for the first time, the project is set to go before cameras in August of this year.
SEO will play Mi-jung, an aspiring director who is searching for a film that was rumored to have been shot by a ghost. At the same time, she meets Tae-hyun, a working film director.
A longtime character actor, after first appearing in
KIM Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, And The Weird (2008), JIN shot to fame last year when he impressed critics and viewers alike for his memorable turn as the violent sidekick of
YOON Kye-sang’s Chinese-Korean gangster in the runaway hit
THE OUTLAWS (2017). The part earned him the Best Supporting Actor prize from the Blue Dragon Film Awards. Since
THE OUTLAWS he has appeared in
The Swindlers (2017) and drama Herstory, while he will be seen again soon in the thriller
Dark Figure of Crime.
Blackout will be the first commercial feature production of director
KIM Jin-won, who previously made the indie film
The Butcher in 2007 as well as the short films
Zombie (1999) and
The Black Line (2009). In addition, Kim also worked in the directing department for the action drama
Spare (2008).