A feature adaptation of Choe Sang-Hun’s April 2019 New York Times inspiring story “Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers” is in the works
will adapt. Kim received a Writers Guild Award and was nominated for an Emmy, PGA, and the NAACP Image Award for his work on Sang-Hun’s story details how, amidst plummeting birth rates in South Korea and the emptying of rural schools, one school, in an effort to fill its classrooms, opened its doors to women who have for decades dreamed of learning to read.CJ Entertainment optioned the rights to the story and will finance and produce an English-Korean language movie with Anonymous Content.
Adam Mehr at McCathern Law negotiated deals on behalf of CJ Entertainment.joins an expanding slate of English language films for CJ. Following the historic, critical and $258M-global grossing success ofwhich won four Oscars including Best Picture, CJ announced it is financing and producing an English language remake of genre bending Korean film alongside Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen with Joon-hwan Jang attached to direct and Will Tracy writing the adapted screenplay.
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