Korean actor Hoyeon is becoming a member of Theo James in Kim Jee-woon’s The Gap thriller.
The indie follows Owen, performed by James, as a profitable professor dwelling in South Korea and bedridden after a devastating automotive accident killed his spouse, Sandy (Hoyeon). Owen is cared for by Yuna, his Korean mother-in-law, who begins to unravel the reality behind Owen and Sandy’s marriage, solely to threaten his street to restoration.
Hoyeon made her appearing debut in the primary season of Netflix’s Squid Sport collection, and likewise seems in Alfonso Cuarón’s psychological thriller Disclaimer for Apple TV+. Hoyeon additionally has an upcoming starring function in Na Hong-jin’s Hope, reverse Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender.
The Veterans is procuring the worldwide rights to The Gap beginning at AFM this week, whereas CAA Media Finance and UTA Unbiased Movie Group are representing the U.S. rights. Sam Esmail, Chad Hamilton and Nick Krishnamurthy are producing for Esmail Corp alongside Kimberly Steward and Alex Foster for Ok Interval Media and Andy Sorgie through his Paisan banner.
Jay Choi and Kim Jee-woon are producing with Quickly Ho Tune, who will serve a co-producer for Anthology Studios. The Gap is written by Christopher Chen and is predicated on the 2017 novel of the identical title by Hye-young Pyun.
The film can have each English and Korean language dialogue and can shoot in the U.S. and Korea beginning in the primary half of 2025. Latest tasks dealt with by The Veterans banner embrace Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, and Walter Salles’ I’m Nonetheless Right here, starring Fernanda Montenegro.
Hoyeon is represented by CAA.
