The world-class ‘Dream Team’ has come together.

Director Alfonso Cuarón, who won the Academy Award for Best Director for the 2018 film ‘Roma’, and director Yeon Sang-ho, who created his own genre film universe and ‘Yeonniverse’ (Yeon Sang-ho + Universe), have joined forces.

The Netflix film ‘Revelation’, starring them and Ryu Jun-yeol, Shin Hyun-bin, and Shin Min-jae, will be released worldwide on the 21st.

‘Revelation’, based on a webtoon of the same name, tells the story of a pastor who believes that punishing the culprit of a missing person‘s case is a revelation from God and a detective in charge of missing person’s cases who is plagued by visions of his younger brother who died in a terrible incident in the past, as they each pursue their own beliefs.

This work is ‘Hell’ Director Yeon Sang-ho, who created ‘Train to Busan’, has created the new film. Webtoon writer Choi Gyu-seok, who previously worked with him on ‘Hellbound’, wrote the screenplay.

In particular, director Alfonso Cuarón, who directed ‘Gravity’ ‘Roma’, is participating as an executive producer, drawing attention.

Director Yeon Sang-ho attended a production report meeting held at the Naru Seoul M Gallery in Mapo-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 18th and said, “It‘s a story about the destruction and salvation of people who only see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe.” He explained the planning intention, saying, “Unlike the films I’ve done so far, I tried to exclude fantasy elements as much as possible and expressed realistic expressions and intimate psychology as a thriller.”

Director Yeon said about working with director Alfonso Cuarón, “He was a huge influence on directors my age,” and “He’s called the ‘master of long takes.’ It feels like a cinematic invention. I got a call from a production company saying they wanted to work with me. They said it didn’t have to be a foreign film, but they would be happy with a Korean film, so we decided to work together.”

He continued, “I thought about whether this film, which has a strong Korean aspect, would appeal globally, and whether it could be made in a global way,” and “He told me it wasn’t a Korean story, but a universal story. We communicated by sending edited versions and various other versions.”



Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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