[News]Hong Gil Dong’s Descendant to start Korean superhero franchise?

Thanks to the success of several screen projects, old folk hero Hong Gil Dong is popular again, and now the latest take on the Robin Hood-like character — action movie Hong Gil Dong’s Descendant — has performed well enough to merit a sequel.You may be familiar by now with the story of the Joseon-era chivalrous robber, which was turned into a fusion sageuk drama last year written by the Hong Sisters and starring Kang Ji-hwan. Recently, the movie Hong Gil Dong’s Descendant starred Lee Beom-soo to combine the familiar folk story with a modern Superman twist to feature Lee as Hong Gil Dong’s...

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Lee Beom-soo, Lee Shi-young, NEWS,

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[news]Sequel in the works for Go-sa: Bloody Midterms

Perhaps you’ll recall the Kim Bum high school horror movie Go-sa:Bloody Midterms [고사 : 피의 중간고사], which also starred Lee Beom-soo as a teacher and former Seeya member Nam Gyu-ri as a student and Kim Bum’s love interest. It had a pretty successful run last summer with sales of 1 million tickets, which is strong enough to now produce a sequel. Production company Core Contents Media has announced that the story of Go-sa 2 will not directly continue from the original movie, but will still be set amid a academy background (which may make it more like the Memento Mori–Whispering Corridors horror...

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Lee Beom-soo, Nam Gyu-ri, NEWS,

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