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November 24, 2016

Lee Byung-heon, Kang Dong-won face off for Kim Woo-bin’s loyalty in Master

by tineybeanie | Dramabeans.com

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Buzz surrounding the upcoming action thriller Master is building up, especially since its recent promo poster and trailer release. The semi-caper movie has a star-studded cast list: Lee Byung-heon (The Magnificent Seven), Kang Dong-won (Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned), and Kim Woo-bin (Uncontrollably Fond) feature as the film’s main leads, with Eom Ji-won (Thrice Married Woman), Jin Kyung (Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim), and Oh Dal-soo (Tunnel) rounding out the supporting roles.

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Lee Byung-heon plays the villainous CEO Jin, a smooth-talking charmer with a talent for bamboozling people out of their hard-earned money. He heads a cult-like corporation called One Network, which gets thousands of members to join and pool their assets together in a pyramid scheme that ultimately only enriches the people at the top. He thinks, “The more enemies, the better. The stronger, the better.” In the trailer, CEO Jin’s chilling lack of guilt and skewed moral code are revealed when he says: “When you deal with petty cash, it’s called scamming. But when you deal with trillions, do you know what it’s called?” Still fraud in my book, but perhaps some bribable politicians would term it business.

If CEO Jin is the handsome face of the operation, Park Jang-goon is the brains. He’s the brilliant programmer who helped create One Network, played by Kim Woo-bin. In hot pursuit of these two big-league con artists is Kim Jae-myung, the leader of the white-collar crimes police task force team, played by Kang Dong-won. Determined to catch the duplicitous CEO at any cost, the cop entices the computer genius to switch sides, asking for just two things: the location of One Network’s data control center and CEO Jin’s hidden account book. Somewhere along the way, CEO Jin realizes a traitor has snitched on his organization, and the real action begins.

Eom Ji-won plays Shin Jemma, a police lieutenant under Kim Jae-myung. Her poster reads: “We don’t investigate just anyone.” On the opposite side, we have Mother Kim (played by Jin Kyung) and Lawyer Hwang (played by Oh Dal-soo). Mother Kim is the marketing director of One Network and CEO Jin’s right-hand woman. Lawyer Hwang is a prosecutor-turned-attorney who acts as the CEO’s guard dog, protecting his back and his company’s interests. As everyone closes in on linchpin Kim Woo-bin, loyalties switch quickly from one side to the next, and you never know who you can trust.

 

High-stakes con movie Master will be in theaters starting this December.

Via TV Report

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November 24, 2016

LEE Byung-hun Thriller MASTER Presells to 31 Territories
CJ Entertainment Secures Global Rollout for Starry New Title

by Pierce Conran / KoBiz

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New action-thriller Master, which features stars LEE Byung-hun, GANG Dong-won and KIM Woo-bin, has been presold by distributor CJ Entertainment to 31 territories around the globe. The film is director CHO Ui-seok’s followup to his 2013 hit Cold Eyes.

Rights for the film were snatched by distributors in regions such as United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and many more. The title drew great interest from buyers when it was presented by CJ at the recent American Film Market (AFM) that was held in Santa Monica over November 2nd to 9th.

Master will bow first in Korea in December before beginning its international rollout that same month in Asian territories such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.

The story concerns a major heist plotted by an infamous conman (LEE Byung-hun) and his right-hand man (KIM Woo-bin), who are chased around the world by GANG Dong-won’s determined investigator.

LEE has recently picked up several awards for his turn in last year’s hit thriller Inside Men and also featured in supporting roles in KIM Jee-woon’s Chuseok release The Age of Shadows and the US western The Magnificent Seven this fall. GANG is currently on screens in the fantasy VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED after appearing in the consecutive hits The Priests (2015) and A Violent Prosecutor, while KIM was last seen in the popular youth comedy Twenty last year.

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