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Bong Joon-Ho to Adapt French SF Comic Le Transperceneige
Posted by X at 12:57am.
Posted in Film News , Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Asia.
Since we’re waiting for 괴물 (The Host), which is about a month away (in Korea, but of course you can add a few months to that for DVD and overseas theater releases), how about we look at Bong Joon-Ho’s future?
In a recent interview the director had with Cine21 (which will be translated for our Press Screening Report of The Host), Bong mentioned a few details about what one of his next films is likely to be (he mentions 차차기작 which would be a follow up to the follow up, so there’s something else in between). Seems like Director Bong bought rights to adapt Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Loeb’s Le Transperceneige, a French SF comic, into a film. The outline is something like this: in a post-apocalyptic world, or what’s remaining of it after a world war and glaciation, the few survivors find themselves in Earth’s last remaining train, named Transperceneige. The train continues to move following a circle in a desert of snow and ice. And, while the poorest live in pathetic conditions, suffering the cold and hunger, those living in the ‘premium class’ lust, party and live like Kings. The Transperceneige continues to travel in this vicious circle, but one day one of the ‘miserables’, Proloff, decides to change status quo, discovering all the secrets behind Earth’s last train.
The film will bring back Designer Jang Hee-Cheol, who worked with Bong on The Host. Of course no word on when this will surface, but it looks to be quite the ambitious project, and it might prove to be what finally puts Chungmuro on the SF film map.
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Craig Oliver 06/23/2006 @ 2:45am
Any rumors on what the next project might be?
Also, we should petition Magnolia to release the film theatrically before import DVDs are available, if only so we don’t give in to the desire to cheat ourselves.
X 06/23/2006 @ 2:50am
No word on that yet.
The better the film does the longer it’ll take to see a DVD Release, and something like the Typhoon situation could happen (waiting the US Release first and then releasing the DVD a few weeks later) but I suppose we should see a DVD around Christmas/Early January.
Caterpillar 06/23/2006 @ 12:38pm
Seeing how Korean sci-fi films so far have managed to all be stunningly terrible and box office failures it’s probably a very wise move to take on foreign source material. Many of the past Korean efforts in the genre were nice enough visually but failed just about everywhere else. This, however, I can get excited about even though I’ve never read a page of the comic.
Tuan Jim 06/24/2006 @ 6:03am
This looks like the kind of thing that Humanoids Press would put out (if they hadn’t been closed domestically after DC partnered with them—bastards!). As it is, I’ve never heard of a translated version and anyone who can point to one would be appreciated in my book.
The names don’t really ring a bell, but despite all the books I’ve bought from Humanoids, the only really familiar names are Bilal, Jodorowsky and Moebius. Now a Metabarons animated series (unedited) would really be something else—the scope’s really too great for anything else.
X 06/24/2006 @ 6:28am
This wasn’t released (officially) in English, but maybe there’s some scanlations out there. There’s a Korean (and probably Japanese) version out, but that’s about it. Ordered the Korean version and downloading the French one… sounds like good stuff. And even better, it fits with Bong’s style like a glove (although someone like Kim Ji-Woon or Park Chan-Wook could do just as well with this kind of material, methinks. Hell, Im Pil-Sung too).
There’s a few pages of the Korean version here