While there are plenty of movies coming out of Hollywood to get excited about, we can’t forget about our Asian counterparts, for there are some really exciting films headed our way and hopefully very soon. Well Go USA has just acquired the North American distribution rights to the high concept, sci-fi drama, Doomsday Book, a three part feature co-directed by Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil) and Yim Pil-sung (The Antarctic Journal).
Doomsday Book has been a long time coming, it started production in 2006 and was finally completed in 2012 before receiving a limited release in Korea this past April. Not only does the film have two powerful directors helming it, it also features a great cast comprised of Kim Kang-woo (Hello, Schoolgirl), Park Hae-il (War Of The Arrows) and Song Sae-byeok (Sector 7). If you ask me, this is Korea’s answer (or question?) to the upcoming Cloud Atlas film, which is also a high concept feature with multiple directors and an anthology-like approach, mixed with a bit of Robopocalypse or I-Robot.
If you’re intrigued by this film, check out the synopsis and film breakdown below along with the English subtitled trailer.
Two acclaimed Korean directors unfurl three unique stories of human self-destruction in the modern high-tech era. In a hope to restore the humane compassion in the insusceptible modern age, the film displays an alternative form of genuine humanity. And thus you are stepping into the world of future, where a series of unexpected stories awaits you. All these stories originate from the earth. From the very earth you live on.
As I mentioned the film is broken up into three stories, “the first about a robot achieving enlightenment, the second about a zombie invasion and the third about a meteor wiping out mankind.”
via Screen Daily, another Screen Daily article and Twtich
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