OLD BOY director Park Chan-wook has lined up his next two flicks a love story set in a mental asylum and a modern-day vampire movie, reports VARIETY.
The South Korean helmer said he'll start shooting his next movie, described as an "offbeat romantic comedy," in March, for fall 2006 release. The film is part of an eight picture funding deal with CJ Ent., where all the films will be shot on HD-24p by name helmers, including Hur Jin-ho and Ryu Seung-wan.
Story is centered on a male inmate who falls for a woman who thinks she's a cyborg. First draft of SAIBOGEU JIMAN GWAENCHANHA (literally meaning EVEN IF YOU'RE A CYBORG, IT'S NO PROBLEM) is ready. The $2.5 million film will have "at least one big star and quite a lot of CG effects for the woman's fantasies," Park told VARIETY.
Park will follow up that film with EVIL LIVE, starring Song Gang-ho, who starred in Parks JSA and SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE. The story for the film is being kept under wraps, but early word is that it may cause controversy with the Catholic Church. The film will deal with the question of the existence of God and Evil." Park told VARIETY hes a fan of more heady vampire classic like Carl Dreyer's 1932 VAMPYR and both versions of NOSFERATU.
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