Korean sci-fi movies are going to ‘The Moon’ in upcoming launch
Sci-fi movies have been caught in a rut in Korea, however upcoming movie “The Moon” makes an attempt to interrupt via that barrier.Starring Do Kyung-soo, higher often called D.O. of boy band EXO, Sul Kyung-gu and Kim Hee-ae, this area survival story is certainly one of 4 domestically produced movies hoping to revive the movie trade this summer time, together with “Smugglers,” “Ransomed” and “Concrete Utopia.”Set each on Earth and the moon, “The Moon” tells the story of a bunch of scientists and astronauts who must rescue an astronaut stranded on the moon, alone. Do performs Seon-woo, the astronaut stranded by himself, and Sul performs Jae-guk, the pinnacle of the staff on Earth who goes to all lengths to attempt to get Seon-woo residence.“Our movie has a whole lot of layers, and we looked for the story to have unhappiness in addition to delight, to have little bits of hope in between the characters struggling,” director Kim Yong-hwa stated throughout a press convention for “The Moon” at CGV Yongsan in central Seoul on Tuesday.Kim has beforehand directed two movies that every bought 10 million tickets: “Alongside With the Gods: The Two Worlds” (2017) and “Alongside With the Gods: The Final 49 Days” (2018). “The Moon” is Kim’s seventh characteristic movie, and all his movies have been about condolence and forgiveness, based on the director.“I used to disclaim the saying that each one movie administrators inform one story about one theme earlier than they die, however I feel now that that’s true,” Kim stated. “’The Moon’ is a sci-fi movie, however I feel it’s additionally about condolence and forgiveness.”As a result of a sci-fi movie a couple of stranded astronaut may draw comparability between well-known Hollywood movies resembling “The Martian” (2015), “Interstellar” (2014) and “Gravity” (2013), Kim deliberately avoided watching these movies whereas getting ready for his personal.“All area movies may have been a reference level for us, however I didn’t need to turn into biased,” Kim stated. “I didn’t even analysis movies with plotlines the place the characters attempt to rescue somebody.”Relating to the filming course of that included Do floating for minutes in “area,” Do stated that he went via three months of coaching in preparation for such scenes.“The whole lot that we thought an actor may do by hand we tried to carry out ourselves by hanging from wires,” Do stated throughout the press convention. “The components that we couldn’t do ourselves, an animator made minimize by minimize. Hanging from a wire was really fairly troublesome, as a result of it wasn’t only one wire, however 5 to 6 particular wires. However the set and astronaut apparel was so much like an precise area station that I may immerse myself effectively.”Taking part in an area professional and head of the staff that’s tasked with rescuing Do’s character was one other problem for Sul, based on the actor.“Memorizing all of the area and science jargon was very troublesome for me,” Sul stated. “And the remainder of the components I attempted to behave by pondering of it as reacting to Do’s efficiency, which helped.”The following problem for the solid was Kim’s, who performs a NASA director and who needed to converse most of her traces in English.“I’ve by no means felt that my scenes have been so lengthy,” Kim stated. “It felt lengthy as a result of I used to be having a tough time talking in English, however after I watched the ultimate minimize of the movie it wasn’t so. However close to the tip of filming, I received over the language barrier and will act from my coronary heart.”“The Moon” opens in theaters on Aug. 2.BY LIM JEONG-WON [lim.jeongwon@joongang.co.kr]