“Nice Outcast,” a 10-part Korean collection that’s set to seem at Canneseries subsequent month, is a companion piece to “Concrete Utopia,” the hit movie from final yr that was chosen as South Korea’s Oscar contender.
Each the Lotte Cultureworks collection and “Concrete Utopia,” a dystopian drama-thriller set in a post-apocalyptic Seoul, are tailored from best-selling webtoon “Cheerful Outcast,” by Kim Soong Nyung. The movie was often in comparison with William Golding’s seminal novel from the 1954 “Lord of the Flies” and its 1964 movie adaptation.
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Utilizing the primary a part of the webtoon, the collection follows Dong-hyun, a highschool junior, who barely survives his day-to-day bullying in school. “When he needs all had been lifeless, an unexplained highly effective earthquake destroys his faculty. Trapped in remoted circumstances, the hierarchy and energy reshuffle as college students wrestle to outlive, whereas steady collapses and accidents kill extra college students. On this collapsed and excessive world, the true human nature begins to awake,” mentioned Lotte in a equipped synopsis.
Produced by Climax Studio, which beforehand made hit reveals “D.P.” and “Jung-E” for Netflix, the present is directed by Baek Jong-yeol (Netflix’s ‘Believer 2” from a screenplay by CAA-represented Kim Bo-tong (“D.P.”).
Its forged is headed by Gained Ji-an “D.P.” and the upcoming “Squid Sport” Season 2; Sung Yu-bin (“Mr. Sunshine”); and Cho Hyun-chul (“D.P.,” Inspector Koo”).
Climax Studio additionally produced a movie sequel to “Concrete Utopia” known as “Badland Hunters” that was offered as a Netflix unique and aired in January this yr. Directed by Heo Myung-haeng, “Badland Hunters” starred Korea’s largest motion star Don Lee (“The Roundup”).
“We’re excited to take part once more in Canneseries with ‘Nice Outcast,’ which was based mostly on the identical webtoon as our Korean Oscar nominee ‘Concrete Utopia,’ which ranked among the many high ten field workplace movies in Korea final yr,” mentioned Choi Byung-hwan, CEO of Lotte Cultureworks.
“It’s an honor to deliver such distinctive and thought-provoking content material like ‘Nice Outcast’ to the worldwide stage and [we] sit up for increasing the publicity of Korean content material via high quality occasions like Canneseries,” mentioned Hugh Cha, head of worldwide partnerships on the agency.
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