Webtoon Purge List Gets Live-Action Film With Woo-Sung Jung, Sung-Il Jung, Ha-Joon Wi
The adaptation brings a prize-winning 2014-2015 webtoon to the screen with a cast of established Korean actors, marking another live-action conversion of a digital comic property.
Reporting from 1 sources: Anime News Network.
A live-action film adaptation of the webtoon Purge List is in development, with Woo-sung Jung, Sung-il Jung, and Ha-joon Wi confirmed as the lead cast. The hard-boiled period action story follows a young girl's revenge against a ruthless strategist who compiled a deadly purge list.
Woo-sung Jung will play Myeong-hoe Han, the cold-blooded tactician who systematizes political purges and personally compiles the infamous list. Sung-il Jung takes the role of Banseok, a key figure protecting the secret assassination group formed to eliminate those involved in the coup. Ha-joon Wi makes a special appearance as Prince Suyang, a power-hungry royal driven by ambition to seize the throne.
The original webtoon by Jong-hoon Kim won the grand prize at the inaugural Daum Online Comics Contest and was serialized between 2014 and 2015. No official English version of the webtoon is currently available.
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- Anime News Network Webtoon-Based Live-Action Movie Purge List Confirms Production, Lead Cast