Inside Men Prequel Film Casts Jung-woo Ha, Bo-hyun Ahn, Hae-joon Park, Sung-il Jung
The cast announcement drops the trilogy framing from earlier staff statements, leaving the project's total film count unclear as production moves forward.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Hive Media Corp announced the main cast for Inside Men: The Birth of Villains, a prequel to the 2015 South Korean film Inside Men. Jung-woo Ha, Bo-hyun Ahn, Hae-joon Park, and Sung-il Jung will lead the film set in the late 1980s, exploring the origins of the power cartel from the original movie. The announcement did not mention the previously stated film trilogy plan.
The prequel is set in the late 1980s and traces how media, capital, and politics became intertwined. Ha plays Kang-hee Lee, a newspaper reporter pushed aside after chasing a major corporate corruption story, a role Yoon-sik Baek played in the original. Ahn takes on Sang-goo Ahn, an entertainment agency executive rising from the bottom while pursuing success and revenge, the part Byung-hun Lee played in 2015.
Park portrays Pil-woo Jang, a first-term lawmaker aiming for the center of power, and Jung plays Hyun-soo Oh, chairman of Mirae Group seeking the top of the emerging cartel. The source material is the unfinished webtoon by Tae-ho Yoon, creator of Yahoo and Misaeng: Incomplete Life. The Inside Men webtoon has no official English release, though other Yoon series do.
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- Anime News Network News Webtoon-Based Live-Action Inside Men Prequel Film Confirms Main Cast