‘The Roundup’ Star Don Lee on Plans to Expand the Action-Packed Franchise: ‘I Need to Entertain More People’
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief In Berlin with “The Roundup: Punishment,” part four of the action movie series that he created and stars in, the larger-than-life Korean American Don Lee finds himself simultaneously in multiple timely and lucrative businesses.
These include the Marvel superhero business, the Korea-to-Hollywood remake business, “The Roundup” franchise and its multiple spinoff possibilities.
Lee may even be in the business of saving Korean cinema, which is currently having one of its periodic wobbles. “What we have to do is make really, really fun entertaining movies.
Put them in cinemas, so that everyone will come back to the theaters. One of my goals is to entertain more people,” Lee told Variety on the fringes of the Berlin Film Festival, where “Punishment” has its world premiere as an out-of-competition gala screening.
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