Lee Jung-jae, the star of hit Netflix series “Squid Game,” is to reprise his role as a manic killer in “Ray,” a TV series spun off from 2020 Korean action-horror film “Deliver Us From Evil.” Korean…
Korean media sources report that Lee will star in and co-produce the series through his own Artist Studio company and Hive Media, producer of “Deliver Us From Evil.”In the original movie, Hwang Jung-min played In-Nam, a former black ops agent who travels to Thailand to investigate an abduction. There he is pursued by Lee’s character Ray, a Korean-Japanese ruffian whose brother had been killed by In-Nam. Both heavily tattooed and charming, Ray embarks on a bloody rampage of revenge.
The series is being written by Kim Bo-tong and is to be co-directed by Shin Woo-seok and Hong Won Chan, the original director of “Deliver Us From Evil.” Pre-production is reported to begin in 2023. No streaming platform attachment has yet been announced. Lee is currently riding high as director-producer and star of “Hunt,” a 1980s-set espionage drama that debuted in Cannes. The film received a mixed reaction in Cannes, with several foreign reviewers calling it confusing.Korean audiences have had no such problem with the intra-Korean complexities and have put the film on top of the theatrical box office for the past two weekends.
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