Theo James To Star In Kim Jee-Woon’s ‘The Hole’; The Veterans Launching Sales On Thriller At AFM
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Theo James (The Gentleman) is set to star in The Hole, directed by Kim Jee-woon (I Saw The Devil) and written by Christopher Chen based on the 2017 Shirley Jackson award winning novel of the same name by Hye-young Pyun.
Esmail Corp (Leave the World Behind), K Period Media (Manchester by the Sea), and Anthology Studios (Cobweb) are producing. The Veterans is representing international sales rights and is launching the project to buyers at AFM next week.
CAA Media Finance is repping U.S. rights. The Hole follows Owen (James), a successful professor living abroad in South Korea, who is bedridden after a devastating car accident that killed his wife, Sandy.
He is left under the care of Yuna, his Korean mother-in-law, but when she starts to unravel the devastating truth behind Owen and Sandy’s marriage, and Owen himself, his road to recovery is threatened.
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