Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief 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 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.” Variety has reached out for further details.
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. “Ray” is expected to develop the back-story of the seductively evil Ray, establishing how he became such a cruel killer and setting him up against other villains around the world.
The series is being written by Kim Bo-tong (“D.P.”) and is to be co-directed by Shin Woo-seok and Hong Won Chan, the original director of “Deliver Us From Evil.” Ace cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo – whose credits include “Parasite,” “Broker,” “Burning,” “Snowpiercer” and “The Wailing” – will pick up the reins from “Deliver Us From Evil” and act as director of photography.
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