[Park ChanWook] Song KangHo, Kim OkBin, Shin HaKyun, Kim HaeSook
THIRST « Bat « Live Evil
BAKJWI [박쥐]62nd Cannes Jury Prize Winner
Official Website Nationwide Release April 30, 2009 thirst2009.co.kr
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Second teaser trailer: mms://vod.cine21.com/cine21.com/movie/trailer/2009/04/thirst_tr.wmv [YouTube]
Theatrical trailer: http://dn-artservice.ktics.co.kr/mailzine/...railer_0410.zip [Streaming] [YouTube]
Streaming links to the first 2 teasers w/ English subs
Teaser 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNsdBnScQAE
Teaser 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG4AV6kLrKY
Set visits
from Im SooJung, Bi, Lee YoungAe, Jung JaeYoung, Park HaeIl, Jeon DoYeon and PCW's director buddies Bong JoonHo, Lee ChangDong, Kim JiWoon, Ryu SeungWan
mms://vod.cine21.com/cine21.com/movie/making/2009/03/thirst_celebrity.wmv
http://www.thirst-2009.co.kr/main/swf/trailer_3.flv
[YouTube]
'Top Project' making clip
mms://vod.cine21.com/cine21.com/movie/making/2009/04/thirst_topproject.wmv
http://www.thirst-2009.co.kr/main/swf/trailer_4.flv
[YouTube]
'Couple' making clip
mms://vod.cine21.com/cine21.com/movie/making/2009/04/thirst_couple.wmv
Teaser posters, thanks to melusine
Directors: Park Chan Wook, Ahn Soo Hyun
Screenwriters: Park Chan Wook, Chung Seo Kyung
Cast:
Song Kang Ho - Sang-hyun
Kim Ok Bin - Tae-ju
Shin Ha Kyun - Kang-woo
Kim Hae Sook - Tae-ju’s mother-in-law (Kang-woo’s mother)
Synopsis
from Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum
Sang-hyun is a priest who volunteers his time conducting his ministry to patients in a small town hospital. Although well respected for his strong faith and dedicated service to those around him, he suffers from overwhelming feelings of doubt and despair about living in a world that seems to be drowning in suffering and death. With the hope of saving even one life, he volunteers to participate in an experiment to find a vaccine for the deadly F.I.V. virus and heads to Africa. But the experiment fails, and Sang-hyun is infected with the fatal disease. Surprisingly, however, he recovers completely. News of his miraculous recovery spreads quickly, and devoted parishioners, thinking that he has the gift of healing, flock to his services. Among the visitors are Kang-woo, Sang-hyun’s childhood friend, and his family. Later, Kang-woo invites Sang-hyun to join the weekly mahjong night at his house, and there Sang-hyun finds himself dangerously drawn to Kang-woo’s wife, Tae-ju. Suddenly, Sang-hyun relapses. He coughs up blood and dies, only to open his eyes the next day in dire need of shelter from the scorching sunlight: Sang-hyun has become a vampire. Initially he feels a new vitality and is excited by his urgent bodily desires, but soon he is disgusted to find himself sucking blood from a comatose patient. After a sinful suicide attempt, he finds himself drawn almost against his will to human blood, and the symptoms of F.I.V come roaring back. Desperately trying to avoid committing murder, he resorts to stealing blood transfusion packs from the hospital. Living with her sick husband and his over-protective mother, Tae-ju leads a dreary, unhappy life. She is drawn to Sang-hyun and his strange new physicality, and he is unable to resist his desire. So they begin an affair. But when Tae-ju discovers the truth about his new life, she retreats in fear, only at first. When Sang-hyun asks her to run away with him, she turns him down, suggesting that they kill Kang-woo instead.
Copied from KPculture.com
Park Chan-wook is back. After his last feature, the quirky romance I'm a Cyborg But That's OK which was not particularly well received, Park is tackling the vampire project which he has been talking about for years. Song Kang-ho plays a priest from a small town who volunteers for a medical experiment. However when the experiment fails, he finds himself physically and psychologically changed, and struggling to hold on to what is left of his humanity. Up-and-coming actress Kim Ok-bin (Dasepo Naughty Girls) co-stars in a role that, according to rumors, many established actresses refused to take because of the explicit sex scenes involved. Shooting started in spring 2008, and CJ Entertainment is said to be considering a Lunar New Year 2009 release. Source: koreanfilm.org
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October 17, 2007
[40th Sitges]Park Chan-wook Speaks on Bakjwi
Posted by Blake at Twitchfilm.net
BLAKE: What can you tell us about your next film Bakjwi?
PARK CHAN-WOOK: Bakjwi is the Korean word for “bat.” It will be a very very sad and tragic melodrama about a vampire who has fallen madly in love with a married woman. It will not be like a Batman type movie or a vampire horror film.
Right now there are two English titles for the film. One is just “Bat” and the other is “Evil Live.” I think “Evil Live” makes it sound too much like a horror film or something along the lines of “Batman-ish” type science fiction, so I will be coming out with a new English title, which I haven’t decided on just yet.
* Thanks to PiFan programmer Jin Hyung Park for stepping in to translate during this interview.
Credits: twitchfilm.net
January 30, 2008
'Bat' having difficulties casting main female character due to high sexual references
Director Park Chan-wook is having difficulties in finding a main female actor for his latest film "Bat" due to high sexual references. Director Park Chan-wook earned an international reputation from his last film, "Old Boy". An excellent actor, Song Kang-ho is already chosen as the main male character. However, many female actors declined to accept the role.
The film is already receiving enormous attention in local and international market, in which the French film distributor, "Wild Side" already bought its copyrights even before the film began shooting. As Director Park Chan-woo said, the plot is a love story of a vampire. However, as evident from Director Park Chan-wook's previous films such as "Old Boy" and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance", his love story wouldn't be an another Hollywood cliché love films. According to a source, the film "Bat" is going to be one of horrific and shocking gothic film.
Despites what is known to the public, Song Kang-ho do not become a vampire from his scientific experiment failure but is someone who has a rather peculiar occupation where he meets a group of people in a secluded place. Meanwhile, he meets a married couple and falls in love with the wife. The sex scenes in the film will be as highly sexual as of those from the recent film, "Lust Caution". This is why many top female actresses are hesitating to be involved in this 'Gothic melo-film'. Even though Song Kang-ho have finished shooting "The Good, The Bad and The Weird", nothing is heard about any progressions made for the film.
A staff from the producer team said, "There are few female actresses who are highly motivated to take the role and we also consider a new face like "Wei Tang" from "Lust Caution". We are not in hurry, because this is the very first part of the preparation stage and we are open to many possibilities".
Translated at hancinema.net
From original article at kr.news.yahoo.com
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February 9, 2008
CJ Entertainment turns double play
By Stuart Kemp
BERLIN -- CJ Entertainment has boarded Park Chan-Wook's latest project, now titled "Thirst," and "The Good, the Bad and the Weird," helmed by Kim Ji-Woon.
In a double whammy for the busy South Korean sales, distribution and financier, CJ Entertainment said Friday that it expects to close deals on both projects for U.S. distribution and is in negotiations "with studios big and small" for "Oldboy" director Park's "Thirst," according to international sales and acquisitions chief Tom Oh.
Oh said "Thirst," budgeted at $7 million, is scheduled to shoot in March and aims to roll out the project in South Korea by the end of this year. It details the story of a priest who turns into a vampire after a failed medical experiment and his battle for survival. "Thirst" is being produced by Moho Films. Oh said CJ Entertainment is putting up finance in return for worldwide sales rights and South Korean distribution rights. CJ Entertainment also has snapped up Korean distribution rights to "Weird" and is just starting presales -- excluding a handful of territories, including Japan -- at the European Film Market.
Oh said the Kim-directed project is "one of the biggest budgets for a Korean movie ever" at $17 million. The deal with the filmmakers and CJ was struck early Friday morning, and Oh and his team are hurriedly fixing up meet-and-greets with buyers. The project started out at rival Korean outfit Cineclick Asia. Oh declined comment on his company's swoop for the title. Set in Manchuria in the 1930s, "Weird" deals with three Korean men and their entanglement with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits, according to one Internet site. Kim has enjoyed success at the boxoffice in Asia with such titles as "The Foul King" (2000), "A Tale of Two Sisters" (2003) and "A Bittersweet Life" (2005).
Source: hollywoodreporter.com
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