Kim Byung-joo, Chairman of MBK Partners, is having his best-selling novel 'Offerings' adapted into a film.
MBK Partners announced on the 9th that Hollywood's Anonymous Content, known for producing 'True Detective,' 'The Revenant,' 'Spotlight,' and 'Eternal Sunshine,' will co-produce the film adaptation of Offerings with Anthology Studios, founded by director Kim Ji-woon and actor Song Kang-ho.
According to Variety, a leading Hollywood and global film and entertainment industry publication, the direction and screenplay adaptation will be handled by Anthony Shim, director of the internationally acclaimed and 28-award-winning film 'Riceboy Sleeps.' Filming is scheduled to begin next fall in Seoul and the United States.
Published in 2020, the novel Offerings tells the story of Daejun, a Korean-American protagonist who defies his father's wish for him to become a scholar and instead works at a Wall Street investment bank. The coming-of-age story explores issues of identity, conflicts between personal values and social roles, and healing, as Daejun returns to Korea during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis to handle government bond issuance and the sale of conglomerate subsidiaries for corporate restructuring.
Kim Byung-joo, founder of MBK Partners and philanthropist, completed Offerings over more than 20 years based on his own experiences during Korea's IMF bailout period. He is currently writing his second novel.
Representatives from Anonymous Content and Anthology Studios said, "Offerings delicately portrays a fractured and divided society and the process of an individual's rediscovery of self within it. Anthony Shim is the perfect director to capture the fragmented identity on screen."
Director and screenwriter Anthony Shim said, "From the moment I read the first chapter of Offerings, I sensed it would be my next film. So many elements of this work bring me great joy."
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