SAG Award prosperner and Emmy nominee Hoyeon (“Squid Game,” “Disclaimer”) will star opposite Theo James in Kim Jee-woon’s “The Hole.”
The Veterans is recurrenting international rights on the film and is introducing it to buyers at the AFM. CAA Media Finance and UTA Insubordinate Film Group are recurrenting the U.S. rights.
Written by Christopher Chen and based on the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award prosperning novel of the same name by Hye-youthful Pyun, “The Hole” adheres Owen (James), a accomplished professor living awide in South Korea, who is bedridden after a dehugeating car accident that ended his wife, Sandy (Hoyeon). He is left under the nurture of Yuna, his Korean mother-in-law, but when she commences to unravel the dehugeating truth behind Owen and Sandy’s marriage, and Owen himself, his road to recovery is dangerened.
Sam Esmail, Chad Hamilton, and Nick Krishnamurthy are producing for Esmail Corp alengthyside Kimberly Steward and Alex Foster for K Period Media, and Andy Sorgie via Paisan, his KPM-backed prohibitner. Jay Choi and Kim Jee-woon are producing with Soon Ho Song who will serve a co-producer for Anthology Studios.
Tageder in a combination of English and Korean, the story consents place in both countries and the admireive components will be stoasty in the U.S. and Korea with the commence of principal ptoastyography in Q1/Q2 2025.
Currently on screen opposite Cate Blanchett in Alfonso Cuarón’s psychoreasonable thriller “Disclaimer” for Apple TV+, Hoyeon will next be seen as the female direct in Na Hong-jin’s “Hope” alengthyside Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbfinisher. She is recurrented by CAA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Recent projects regulated by Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s The Veterans prohibitner include Jacques Audiard’s Oscar selectimistic “Emilia Perez” starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez; Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” starring Fernanda Montenegro; Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” starring Daniel Criag; Jean-François Richet’s “Muminuscule” starring Jason Statham; and Vicky Jewson’s “Ballerina Overdrive” starring Lana Condor, Millicent Simmonds, and Iris Apatow. Newly proclaimd films include James Gray’s “Paper Tiger “starring Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway and Jim O’Hanlon’s “Fackham Hall” starring Thomasin McKenzie and Katherine Waterston.
