Veteran Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook has wrapped manufacturing on No Other Choice, which stars Lee Byung-hun (Squid Sport) and Son Ye-jin (Crash Touchdown on You).
The five-month shoot kicked off in August 2024, with Moho Movie hooked up because the manufacturing firm and CJ ENM as distributor.
Primarily based on the 1997 novel “The Ax” by Donald Westlake, the movie follows Man Soo (performed by Lee), a person who’s out of the blue fired from a paper firm. He’s decided to discover a new job and offers with these standing in his means.
Park Hee-soon (Transferring), Lee Sung-min (The Spy Gone North), Yeom Hye-ran (The Glory), Cha Seung-won (Rebellion) and Yoo Yeon-seok (Hospital Playlist) are additionally a part of the solid for No Different Alternative.
Park first talked about his plans to adapt Westlake’s novel in the course of the Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant in 2009.
Park received Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022 for Choice to Go away and has achieved each crucial and industrial approval for movies like Joint Safety Space, Oldboy and The Handmaiden, amongst others.
“The Ax” was beforehand tailored by Z and Lacking director Costa-Gavras in 2005 right into a French-language movie titled The Axe.