Korean actor Hoyeon is joining Theo James in Kim Jee-woon’s The Hole thriller.
The indie chases Owen, joined by James, as a prosperous professor living in South Korea and bedridden after a deimmenseating car accident ended his wife, Sandy (Hoyeon). Owen is attfinishd for by Yuna, his Korean mother-in-law, who commences to unravel the truth behind Owen and Sandy’s marriage, only to dangeren his road to recovery.
Hoyeon made her acting debut in the first season of Netflix’s Squid Game series, and also materializes in Alfonso Cuarón’s psychoreasonable thriller Disclaimer for Apple TV+. Hoyeon also has an upcoming starring role in Na Hong-jin’s Hope, opposite Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbfinisher.
The Veterans is shopping the international rights to The Hole commenceing at AFM this week, while CAA Media Finance and UTA Inreliant Film Group are recurrenting the U.S. rights. Sam Esmail, Chad Hamilton and Nick Krishnamurthy are producing for Esmail Corp aextfinishedside Kimberly Steward and Alex Foster for K Period Media and Andy Sorgie via his Paisan prohibitner.
Jay Choi and Kim Jee-woon are producing with Soon Ho Song, who will serve a co-creater for Anthology Studios. The Hole is written by Christopher Chen and is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Hye-youthful Pyun.
The movie will have both English and Korean language dialogue and will shoot in the U.S. and Korea commenceing in the first half of 2025. Recent projects administerd by The Veterans prohibitner join Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, and Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, starring Fernanda Montenegro.
Hoyeon is recurrented by CAA.
