Variety is reporting that Warner Bros. Pictures is preparing to mount its first-ever Korean-language production with Secret Agent, the latest from critically-acclaimed director Kim Jee-woon (I Saw The Devil, The Good, the Bad, the Weird).
Set in Korea during the 1930s Japanese colonial era, the period drama Secret Agent will be headlined by South Korean icon Song Kang-ho (The Host, Snowpiercer) alongside Gong Yoo (The Suspect, Like a Dragon).
South Korea has become one of the biggest markets for foreign box office, with a cumulative $1.52 billion in receipts last year alone. It has also become a hotspot for major Hollywood productions to shoot in, with this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron lensing a major action sequence in Seoul and the currently-filming Star Trek Beyond also scheduled to shoot in the capital area.
Secret Agent will be a co-production between Warners and director Kim’s Grimm Pictures, with filming set to begin in Korea and China this October. Kim Jee-woon previously made his American directorial debut for Lionsgate with 2013’s The Last Stand starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
