Excuse me... let me take this in... I'll be back after trying to forget this piece of casting news, so I am not anticipating this movie like a loon until 2017!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GIVE ME THIS, NOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!

Damn. That's something worth waiting.

Both Ryu and his producer wife Kang Hye-Jung separately mentioned they were looking at a summer release in 2017, and given the subject matter, probably August. Ryu also said post-production would be quite challenging, so yes, a loooooooooooooooooong wait indeed. But hopefully well worth it and deservedly so. He's cited Hogan's Heroes and The Great Escape as some of his inspirations (IRL there were no OSS-trained independence fighters who helped the Korean workers escape the island), so it doesn't sound like it's going to be all gloom and doom.

On a side note, particularly pleased for SJK who had to pull out of a movie because of his enlistment. If this is the reward for his service to the country, couldn't have picked a better project.

yasssssss i would totally watch it for the cast!!!

I had never heard of this bit of history until I watched an episode of Infinity Challenge. (And I thought then, this would make a fascinating movie.)

AND here comes the waiting game. I want SJK on my screen! Still not sure about his drama with SHK ?

I doubt they'll get to actually film on the island like Attack on titan did and one of the recent Bond movies.
I do find the subject interesting and something to discuss but it comes at a bad time especially since both countries are now in the midst of working out the comfort women issue with a new agreement. Also two of the three actors are quite popular in Japan but I'd guess not so much after this.

I read something quite interesting recently, a article (on a film site) hat how many new Korean films tend to be anti-Japanese and portray Japanese characters in a very one sided way (as in every single Japanese person is evil)
They mentioned the recent tiger movie where the tiger apparently only attacked Japanese people and left every Korean person unharmed.

Omg, this is an amazing cast with an amazing director helming it

I doubt a few films are going to have bad impact on Japanese-Korean relations, especially given how the two nations interact constantly through business, tourism, and entertainment.

There are British people who fret about British actors always playing villains in American movies. It seems silly to me as a an American watching American media, as most of the quality fiction on our own public television network is British-made. A few odd villain roles in movies isn't remotely the media exposure of forty years of Masterpiece Theater, Masterpiece Mystery, Doctor Who, and Monty Python! No nation ever had better cultural ambassadors.