Take advantage of Cohen To Direct 1950, Korea's Greatest Budget Film

  This summer 28, 2011 La CJ E&M Pictures and Grapevine Entertainment have attached Take advantage of Cohen (The Short and also the Furious) to direct 1950, the biggest allocated project ever carried out through the Korean film industry, at $100m. Production is anticipated to start in May 2012 having a planned release date of spring 2013. An untold story of courage and endurance throughout the Korean War, 1950 is definitely an epic adventure, in line with the Pulitzer Prize-winning dispatches in the front line by legendary New You are able to Herald Tribune correspondent Marguerite Higgins. 1950 has been created by CJ E&M Pictures of Korea and Grapevine Entertainment, alongside Brett Donowho and executive producer Paul Hudson. The producers developed the storyline, and commissioned a script from Rachel Lengthy and John Pittman (Silver Falls and Stranded). Marguerite Higgins, the Tribunes then China bureau chief, who had covered the liberation from the Nazi concentration camps in the finish of World war 2, initially found herself banned through the US Military top brass from since the Korean conflict, due to the fact she would be a lady. Her persistent efforts to overturn this ruling eventually won her special permission from General Douglas MacArthur to operate alongside the leading line troops. 1950 follows Higgins journey over the Korean peninsula having a platoon of marine corps, ending using the mass evacuation on Christmas Eve of nearly 200,000 South Korean ordinary people getting away the oncoming Chinese and North Korean armies. CJ and Grapevine have been in discussion having a-list Hollywood and Asian talents to fill the important thing leading roles of Marguerite Higgins, the best choice from the Marine platoon, Captain Darren, along with a Korean Katusa, Sunjae Lee. Grapevine and CJ have been in advanced discussions having a major worldwide distribution company to deal with the discharge from the film outdoors of Korea, which CJ will handle. CJ E&M Pictures Mind of Worldwide Financing and Production, Sean Lee stated While 1950 is dependant on an extremely function in Korean history, we're certain that CJ and GV can elevate this tale right into a film which will resonate using the audience worldwide. His enthusiasm was echoed by John Han of Grapevine Entertainment, in announcing the project, remarked, We're proud and excited to create towards the screen inside a major film the storyline of the amazing, brave and pioneering lady, who now lies hidden alongside Presidents and heroes in Arlington National Graveyard. Take advantage of Cohen welcomed the chance to direct 1950. "The Korean War has frequently been known to as 'the forgotten war' and i believe it's the perfect time it had been appreciated. Telling the storyline of the harrowing conflict with the eyes of pioneering journalist Marguerite Higgins causes it to be an extremely different war film on every level." Cohens directorial credits include xXx, Stealth, and also the Mummy: Tomb from the Dragon Emperor.