Kang Dong-won stars as a slave-turned-rebellious warrior in “Rebellion,” a beautiful interval motion movie that opens this week’s Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant. This function additional cemented his fame as considered one of Korea’s most versatile and charismatic actors.
However the South Korean star additionally had his coronary heart set on changing into a movie producer and reviving a stalled Hollywood profession.
“The Dealer on the 2022 Cannes Movie Pageant is my first producer function. I am engaged on a couple of different tasks now,” Gan instructed sort. However he insists he won’t surrender his performing profession.
“I wished extra motion. That is why I additionally produce. I really like what I do. And began producing as a result of I had concepts that I wished to make into tasks. Like, I wrote a synopsis two years in the past and now There is a script author engaged on it and they’ll movie it subsequent yr. It is a interval drama, romance, fantasy motion.
“Rebellion” director Kim Sang-wan mentioned Kang’s increasing remit appeared to suit properly together with his broader-than-usual imaginative and prescient for movie tasks. Kim describes Gang as “with the ability to see your entire challenge.”
Gan mentioned his manufacturing tasks might have a number of origins, together with ones he writes himself. “Once I began writing, I used to be impressed by an actress. Nevertheless, after I completed writing, my producer and I noticed it wasn’t the correct match for her. So, that is my manufacturing firm’s greatest challenge proper now. One. The opposite one is a remake of a TV sequence. I can’t speak concerning the particular particulars, however considered one of them is already deliberate. [For] Alternatively, we additionally want to search out companions.
The actor-producer solid Gang as a mannequin for Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, who typically get the fabric they need to star in and use their very own manufacturing groups to craft function and episodic tasks.
Gang can also be eager to revive his stalled Hollywood profession and has illustration by CAA and Vary Media Companions.
“I used to be concerned in a challenge in america 5 – 6 years in the past. That did not occur, however I spent a yr there studying English and English performing abilities, truly, one yr and 4 months,” Oka instructed sort. “In the end, the challenge did not come to fruition, however, I used to be nonetheless completely happy to problem myself as a result of I wished to work with each gifted particular person on the planet.”
“Rebellion” will premiere on Netflix on October 11.
