Disaster Film Starts Production, Eyes Summer 2019 Release
While the busy high summer season is on the verge on winding down for 2018, one of next year’s summer season contenders has begun production. Debut film of director
LEE Sang-geun, the action disaster
Exit (working title), starring
JO Jung-suk and Kpop superstar
Yoon-a, kicked off filming on August 4.
Exit follows a jobless young man (
JO Jung-suk) who bumps into an old college classmate (
Yoon-a) during his mother’s 70th birthday party. At the same time, a poisonous fog mysteriously descends on the city and the pair must escape it before they fall ill.
A member of the enormously successful Kpop outfit Girls’ Generation,
Yoon-a already has extensive TV experience and appeared in a supporting role in last year’s smash hit
Confidential Assignment (2017), for which she earned the Next Generation Award at this year’s Asian Film Awards.
Though
Exit marks his first feature-length work, Director LEE is no stranger to the industry, having helmed a number of shorts such as
Mr. Tap’s Holiday (2010) and either shot or produced several more. He also participated in the directing department of
RYOO Seung-wan’s
Dachimawa Lee (2008).
Hoping to follow in the footsteps of popular summer disaster films such as
Haeundae (2009),
Deranged (2012) and
Flu (2013),
Exit is expecting to hit theaters in summer 2019.