[Movie 2008] The Good, The Bad, The Weird 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈

[rubie]

2007-02-08

Top stars Song Gang Ho, Lee Byung Hun, and Jung Woo Sung to collaborate with director Kim Ji Woon

The three big stars Song Gang Ho, Lee Byung Hun, and Jung Woo Sung were cast in one movie simultaneously, which is creating a stir.

On the 8th, according to the movie production company Baruson Entertainment, Song Gang Ho, Lee Byung Hun, and Jung Woo Sung were casted as the three main male lead characters in director Kim Ji Woon's new movie "Good Guy, Bad Guy, Strange Guy," which takes place in the plains of Manchuria.

For these top stars, who are rated in the nation's entertainment world as "Top Actors Picked For Casting," it is a remarkably unique event for them to be cast in the same movie at the same time.

For "Good Guy, Bad Guy, Strange Guy," the projected funding will be over 10 million dollars, and it is a grandiose Korean movie with a Western movie style. It is an adventure story set in the plains of Manchuria, which became the fighting grounds for the 20th century superpowers of the world, and it focuses on the main characters' flight and pursuit.

Lee Byung Hun's character says that he hunts prey, but he's actually a warm-hearted "good guy." Jung Woo Sung plays a "bad guy" who doesn't even hesitate to kill for the sake of becoming the best.

Song Gang Ho, who was the first to be cast, plays the "strange guy" who is always at the source of trouble of accidents but has a knack for surviving through everything.

Director Kim Ji Woon had worked together with Song Gang Ho for "Foul King," and with Lee Byung Hun for "Bittersweet Life," but it is his first collaboration with Jung Woo Sung.

"Good Guy, Bad Guy, Strange Guy" will start filming in April, and is planned to be released early next year.

Source: BROASIA.com, image from empas.com

http://www.broasia.com/lwboard/lwboard.php...pg=1&no=168

[Guest atel]

gosh i think i have vague memories of the original movie ..~ .lol but i know it was like a classic just that western movie was not really my cup of tea but to have a western style movie in the 1930s Manchuria, China then that is one choatic times .! ..

^ lol. maybe it's just me in here ... but the spaghetti western's made by sergio leone - like a the good the bad and the ugly (along with a few dollars more, and fist full of dollars) are so dope. they're iconic classics. and these films made clint eastwood big.

haha... people should check out these movies - awesome if you like cowboy gunfights, peculiar characters, bounty hunters/gunmen in cold pursuit of cash. or if that's not your thing, then for the interesting cinematography and to just appreciate the style of the film. the classic western song wa-waa - wa wa -wa that always seems to play when two people seem to be in a standoff is a score from the good the bad the ugly. (lol - still getting a laugh out of mark russell's anecdote about jung woosung being a lineman in china. ).

[rubie]

A rather similar update to the Variety.com report on the previous page, also by Darcy Paquet

Feb. 8, 2007

Star trio tops Cineclick pic

 

Lee, Jung, Song join 'Good, the Bad and the Weird'

By DARCY PAQUET

BERLIN — Three of Korea's top male stars will join hands in director Kim Jee-woon's Korean-style Western, "The Good, the Bad and the Weird."

Production company Barunson said that the Sergio Leone-inspired Western will star thesps Lee Byung-heon ("A Bittersweet Life") as "the good"; Jung Woo-sung ("The Restless") as "the bad"; and Song Kang-ho ("The Host") as "the weird."

The casting of the three top actors turns the pic into the biggest showcase of Korea's star system in recent memory.

The $10 million production will be set in Manchuria during the early 1900s, building off a string of Korean genre films from the 1970s that combined the aesthetics of the Western with outlaw movements aligned against Japanese colonial forces. Pic is scheduled to shoot from April to June in China, with a delivery planned for early 2008. Seoul-based seller Cineclick Asia is handling pre-sales at the EFM.

Source: Variety.com, images from empas.com

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111795896...categoryID=2476

 

[Guest bwitched]

I cant' wait for this movie to release

[Guest inez]

A TOTAL HOTTNESS.....one bad hot dude.......... :sweatingbullets:

[Guest danjchoi]

[myownsecretmind]

i definitely will hang around this thread a lot. Jws & lbh are my top fav actors! :)

[rubie]

April 21, 2007

"The Good, The Bad and The Weird" Starts Shooting Wednesday

Filming begins Wednesday of The Good, the Bad and the Weird [좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈], Kim Ji-woon's (A Bittersweet Life, 2005) "Korean-style Western" starring Lee Byeong-heon ("the good"), Jeong Woo-seong ("the bad") and Song Kang-ho ("the weird). Inspired by Segio Leone's 1966 spaghetti-Western "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", Kim's film, set in 1930s Japanese occupied Manchuria, tells the story of three Joseon mounted bandits who get their hands on a treasure map, only to be pursued by the army of national independence, who believe that the outlaws have a map for a new railway to be built by the Japanese army. There will be much humor along the way -- in one scene, the character played by Song goes into an opium den in search of the map and, talking away in quite a jovial and relaxed fashion, he becomes light-headed because of the opium smoke, and gradually starts talking gibberish. Filming is to take place mostly in China (around six months), the rest being shot in Hollywood and Korea, with an expected release date sometime in 2008. 

Director: Kim Ji-Woon [김지운] 
Cast: Song Kang-Ho [송강호], Lee Byeong-Heon [이병헌], Jeong Woo-Seong [정우성] 

Source: Darcy Paquet (KOFIC), JoongAng Ilbo, Cine21, credit » Jon Pais at TwitchFilm

April 24, 2007 

KIM Jee-woon Starts Shooting Western

Filming started April 25th on director KIM Jee-woon's Oriental western adventure The Good, The Bad, and the Weird. The film will showcase an ensemble of stars in the central roles with LEE Byung-hun, ("the good"), JUNG Woo-sung ("the bad") and SONG Kang-ho ("the weird"). The film is set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during the 1930's. 

It will mark the first time the top three Korean stars have acted together. Director KIM, in an interview with the Chosun Ilbo, described his experience of handling the needs of the three celebrities. KIM called LEE the "most particular actor in Korea" – the one most often asking questions about his role. SONG, he called "Korea's super-actor" and JUNG, the actor "ambitious to be director."

The film tells the story of three Chosun dynasty horse-riding bandits who discover a treasure map and are pursued by an army of national independence soldiers who believe it is a map of Japanese plans to build a railway. Obvious inspiration came from Sergio Leone classic, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly but KIM insists this western will be of a distinctly Korean flavor. 

The main production will be filmed on location in China over six months with additional shooting in Korea and Hollywood. A release date is expected by summer 2008.

Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)

[Guest inez]

Thanks Rubes for the article..always interesting ..i truly enjoy Song KangHo..he's like have done everything..a versatile actor. I have watched most of his movies the latest of course being The Host..My favourites include JSA, Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, The Foul King, Memories of a Murder, Antarctic Journal, Shiri..wow..and this one certainly!. Acting strange is nothing to him.. Cool man!

[rubie]

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈

Blazing Non-stop Adventure Kimchi Western

Perhaps due to his gentle voice and wet, glistering eye, Lee’s filmography consists largely of love stories. However, since the film noir, A Bittersweet Life, Lee has shown his wider range. Even in portraying villains he stands out due to his exquisite expressions and acting abilities.

Chang-yi, a stubborn, atrocious, and cruel character who sometimes shows a hint of madness, comes alive through Lee as not just a simple villain but a strong, appealing and charismatic character. Cannes 2008

He's the first Dolce & Gabbana-clad cowboy assassin (.X. at Twitchfilm)

Director: Kim Jee Woon

Starring: Song Kang Ho, Lee Byung Hun, Jung Woo Sung

Screenplay: Kim Jee Woon, Kim Min Suk

Production Company: CJ Entertainment

Release Date: July 19, 2008

Genre: Oriental Western

Nationwide Release: July 17, 2008

Related links Official Website l Daum GBW Fansite l imdb l ifcfilm.com l wikipedia l rottentomatoes l amazon.com

Synopsis: In the 1930s, the world is in chaos. In Northeast Asia, the Korean Peninsula has fallen into the hands of the Japanese Imperialists. Many Koreans have flocked to Manchuria, the vast terrain of horses and wilderness bordering their homeland and China. Some of them, inevitably, have turned into mounted bandits to earn their living in this barren wasteland. UTae-gu (The Weird) is a thief. He robs a train of Japanese military officers, but the incident is not as simple as it first seems. In the middle of this fierce gun battle against the Japanese, he obtains a mysterious map that leads to a treasure from the Qing Dynasty, buried somewhere in Manchuria.

Yet, the map is also sought by Chang-yi, the cold blooded hitman (The Bad). Tae-gu must fight not only the Japanese but also Chang-yi and his fellow thugs, who happen to attack the train at the same time. At the end of this intense gunfight, a mysterious man jumps into the center of the battle from nowhere and rescues Tae-gu with astonishing gunplay. Having survived the battle, Tae-gu thanks the man for saving his life. Yet, he does not know that this stranger is Do-won, the bounty hunter (The Good), who has been chasing Tae-gu to turn him in for a reward. These three men - Do-won (The Good), Chang-yi (The Bad) and Tae-gu (The Weird) - will soon discover that the map they are battling for is also a magnet that attracts others as diverse as the Korean resistance, Chinese/Russian/Korean mountain bandits and the Japanese army. The blazing gun battle in the train proves to be merely the beginning of the rollercoaster ride to the final showdown to come. (Asianmediawiki.com, Lunapark6)

Film Festivals & Awards

May 24, 2008: Invited to 61st Cannes International Film Festival Out-of-Competiton Gala Presentation

August 29 - September 1: 35th Telluride Film Festival

September 4 - 13: 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' Gala Screening at the 33rd Toronto Film Festival

25 September - 9 October 2008: 10th edition of the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival at the Copacabana Beach

September 25 - October 10: 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' screening at 27th Vancouver International Film Festival

October 2 - 10: 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' Open talk & screening at the 13th Pusan International Film Festival

October 2 - 12: 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' in Competition at 41st SITGES Film Festival

[WINNERS] Best Director, Best Visual Effect

October 9 - 19: 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' closing the 28th LV-Hawaii International Film Festival

Maverick Award - Director Kim Ji Woon, Lifetime Achievement Award - Jung Woo Sung

October 15 - 30: 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' screening at The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival

October 30 - November 9: 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' at AFI Fest 2008 in Los Angeles

November 1 - 8: GBW as Opening Film at the Singapore Korean Film Festival

November 11: GBW in competition at the 2nd Asia Pacific Screen Award in Gold Coast, Australia

[WINNER] Best Cinematography Achievement Award - Lee Mo Gae

November 6 - 14: GBW at 3rd London-Korean Film Festival 2008

November 18 - 29: 20th Stockholm International Film Festival

November 20 - 29th Blue Dragon Film Awards

[WINNERS] Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction & Maximum Audience Award

December 4 - 7th Korean Film Awards

[WINNERS] Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction

December 16 - 11th Director's CUT Awards

[WINNER] Best Director of the Year - Dir. Kim Ji Woon

2009 March 23 - 3rd Asian Film Awards

Hong Kong International Film Festival

[WINNER] Best Supporting Actor - Jung Woo Sung

The Good, The Bad and The Weird

Genre: Oriental Western

Format: 35mm

Estimated Running Time: 120 min.

Budget: US$10,000,000 (HK$78,000,000)

Funds Secured: US$8,000,000 (HK$62,400,000)

Producer: CHOI Jae-won

Writing Credits: KIM Jee-woon (screenplay), KIM Min-suk (screenplay)

Production Company: Barunson Co. Ltd. / Grimm Pictures

Partner Attached: Showbox, South Korea

Introduction

Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon has created box office hits in Asia with The Foul King (2000), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and A Bittersweet Life (2005). This time he would take on the challenge of a new genre: an “Oriental Western". Set in Manchuria in 1930s, the story deals with three Korean men and their entanglement with the Japanese army, Chinese and Russian bandits, accompanied with many exciting action scenes.

Synopsis

In the 1930s, the world is in chaos. In Northeast Asia, the Korean Peninsula has fallen into the hands of the Japanese Imperialists. Many Koreans have flocked to Manchuria, the vast terrain of horses and wilderness bordering their homeland and China. Some of them, inevitably, have turned into mounted bandits to earn their living in this barren wasteland.

Tae-gu (The Weird) is a thief. He robs a train of Japanese military officers, but the incident is not as simple as it first seems. In the middle of this fierce gun battle against the Japanese, he obtains a mysterious map that leads to a treasure from the Qing Dynasty, buried somewhere in Manchuria. Yet, the map is also sought by Chang-yi, the cold blooded hitman (The Bad). Tae-gu must fight not only the Japanese but also Chang-yi and his fellow thugs, who happen to attack the train at the same time. At the end of this intense gunfight, a mysterious man jumps into the center of the battle from nowhere and rescues Tae-gu with astonishing gunplay. Having survived the battle, Tae-gu thanks the man for saving his life. Yet, he does not know that this stranger is Do-won, the bounty hunter (The Good), who has been chasing Tae-gu to turn him in for a reward.

These three men - Do-won (The Good), Chang-yi (The Bad) and Tae-gu (The Weird) - will soon discover that the map they are battling for is also a magnet that attracts others as diverse as the Korean resistance, Chinese/Russian/Korean mountain bandits and the Japanese army. The blazing gun battle in the train proves to be merely the beginning of the rollercoaster ride to the final showdown to come.

Director's Statement

The broad plains of Manchuria offer a seemingly boundless landscape of earth and sky, long ruled by wild men and their horses. It became a battle field for great powers in 1930s. And it also became a land of exile for Koreans wandering there.

Do-won, the bounty hunter, Chang-yi, the cold-blooded hitman and Tae gu, the train bandit, are players in an epic story staged against Manchuria’s striking, exotic landscape. I would like to express the overflowing emotion filling the endless landscape with a matter of life and death, but I also want to do it in a rather humorous way. On yet another level, I want to show the audience the faces of Koreans of that era who had been abandoned by their homeland and by the insurmountable tide of history.

Personally, this film also represents a genre that I have envisioned during my previous filmmaking endeavors. With this never-before-seen genre of the “Oriental Western”, I want to create cinematic excitement and the sensation of wild action staged on a vast and exotic landscape.

Director

Kim Jee-woon began his career as a stage actor, then stage director, and finally has become one of the most popular and acclaimed figures among modern Korean directors/screenwriters. His second screenplay, The Quiet Family (1998), won him the Best Screenplay prize in a local contest, and Kim went on to make his directorial debut with this screenplay. The film was invited to many film festivals. Kim’s films, from The Quiet Family (1998) to last year’s A Bittersweet Life, have been hailed by critics and audiences alike for his unique style and storytelling. His second feature, The Foul King (2000), drew more than 2 million spectators, while his astounding horror film of true visual elegance, A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), reached 3.5 million viewers nation-wide. It went on to be remade by Dreamworks in the US.

Producer

Choi Jae-won founded I Pictures Inc. in 2000 and has executive produced globally-acclaimed films such as Memories of Murder (2003) by Bong Joon-ho; Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring (2003) by Kim Ki-duk; A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) by Kim Jee-woon; Chihwaseon (2002); Volcano High (2001); My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002) and Take Care of My Cat (2001), to name a few.

Since changing the company name to Barunson Co. Ltd. in 2005, Choi has taken the initiative to produce a number of projects by world-renowned directors such as Kim Jee-woon (A Bittersweet Life, A Tale of Two Sisters), Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder), Yim Phil-sung (Antarctic Journal) and others. In addition to these projects, Choi is seeking to expand project development with other producers abroad with efforts focused mainly on family-oriented animation and feature films.

Production Company

Though Barunson film division is a newcomer in the film industry, its founders have been involved in producing for the last decade, with various kinds of films, including The Host (2006) and Memories of Murder (2003), by Bong Joon-ho; A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) by Kim Jee-woon; The President’s Barber (2004) and Volcano High (2001).

Employing a system of "Synergetic Producer Groups" that unites producers of different backgrounds and specialties to maximise productivity, Barunson Film Division’s primary objective is to make films that convey Asian originality while meeting world-class production standards. This ambitious vision has resonated deeply among the directors currently preparing their next projects with Barunson – Bong Joon-ho, Kim Jee-woon, Yim Phil-sung and others – and they represent the rare filmmakers who can make this vision come true. The ability to attract these talents to the banner is testimony to Barunson’s goals and visions. Source: hkiff.org.hk

The Good, The Bad, The Weird - Trailer HD 2010

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[rubie]

08 Feb 2007

With the Berlin International Film Festival underway today, a nice bit of casting news has been dropped today on Kim Jee-woon's upcoming korean western The Good, The Bad And The Weird.

No this isn't a typo, I did say western. Now that you are over the shock, now for the casting news. We already knew that Song Kang-ho was attached to the project, taking up the role as the weird. For the role of the good, we have Lee Byung-heon, and for the role of the bad Jung Woo-sung.

Many of you will remember Song Kang-ho in a little film called The Host last year. Lee Byung-heon was also in Kim Jee-woon's A Bittersweet Life, and you last seen Jung Woo-sung in The Restless also last year.

Not much has been revealed about the plot yet. We do know that the 10 million dollar project will be filmed in China and is set in the early 1900's. You can also expect some dark humor along the lines of Kim Jee-woon's eariler works The Foul King and The Quiet Family for this upcoming 2008 release.

Credit: http://www.kfccinema.com/cutenews/rss.php?number=30

[Guest ylin]

source: japanese chosun

http://chinese.chosun.com/big5/site/data/h...0223000003.html

Briefly translated by ylin

Lee Byung Hun recovered from ankle fracture and prepares to start filming in China

Lee Byung Hun who has fractured his ankle on 1st of this month (February) has recently removed the gypsum cast and is preparing to shoot the movie "Good Guy, Bad Guy, Strange Guy".

Lee Byung Hun fractured his ankle while walking down the stairs, had the cast removed just before Chinese New Year, after receiving 2 weeks of medical treatment.

He is now able to move as per normal and is preparing for the movie, which will start shooting in China, April this year.

The movie "Good Guy, Bad Guy, Strange Guy" is a new movie by Director Kim Ji Hoon whom Lee Byung Hun has worked with in the "Bitter Sweet Life". The other casts are Song Gang Ho and Jung Woo Sung.

The story is set in the 20's and 30's of Manchuria, incorporating Western movie scenes and is expected to have more gun fighting scenes than "Bitter Sweet Life". Lee Byung Hun will soon start to rehearse the scripts with Song Gang Ho and Jung Woo Sung in preparation to start the shooting.

[rubie]

Feb 15 2007

Three top stars join director KIM Jee-woon

Top actors LEE Byung-heon, JUNG Woo-sung and SONG Kang-ho have all agreed to star in director KIM Jee-woon's ambitious new project The Good, the Bad and the Weird. LEE will portray "the good", JUNG "the bad", and SONG "the weird", respectively.

A so-called "Korean-style Western" set in Manchuria during the early 1900s, the film ranks as one of the highest-profile Korean films scheduled to be shot this year. The casting of three major actors in a single film also makes it a virtual showcase of Korean star power.

Produced by Barunson and sold internationally by Cineclick Asia, The Good, The Bad and the Weird will cost over $10 million and is tentatively scheduled to start shooting in spring of this year, with a release expected in 2008.

Inspired by the Sergio Leone classic The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, the film also builds off a string of Korean genre films from the 1970s that combined the aesthetics of the Western with outlaw movements aligned against Japanese colonial forces.

International sales company Cineclick Asia will have the film available for pre-sale at this week's European Film Market at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Credit Darcy Paquet (KOFIC)

[Guest inez]

Good Gawd!!!..those eyes talk already!!!! and i am melting.....

[Guest summer0323]

ETN news

mms://mmc.daumcast.net/tvnews/etn/200702/09/200702091171001408_s.wmv

[shirley]

^ lol. maybe it's just me in here ... but the spaghetti western's made by sergio leone - like a the good the bad and the ugly (along with a few dollars more, and fist full of dollars) are so dope. they're iconic classics. and these films made clint eastwood big.

haha... people should check out these movies - awesome if you like cowboy gunfights, peculiar characters, bounty hunters/gunmen in cold pursuit of cash. or if that's not your thing, then for the interesting cinematography and to just appreciate the style of the film. the classic western song wa-waa - wa wa -wa that always seems to play when two people seem to be in a standoff is a score from the good the bad the ugly. (lol - still getting a laugh out of mark russell's anecdote about jung woosung being a lineman in china. ).

lol ohhh i do rem those standoff .background music ..one never forgets it ..it too memorable and it is like an icon of western movies ..

*i was reading the "Korean Film Observatory Issue 21 " there an article on an interview with director kim on his new movie .i think it is probably an interview done where he only cast song kang ho in the early stage ..kek but i grin when i see him describing this

the question was :

what is the dominant sentiment ? i expect alot of humour

Director Kim :

Many of the people that read my incomplete script laughed alot. Some thought the story reminded them of < pirates of Caribbean> beacause my characters' journey kept stretching out. The humour of this movie will be like this .

For example , when the character played by Song Kang -ho goes into an opium den to find the treasure map, talking way in quite a jovial and relaxed fashion, he becomes light headed because of the opium smoke , and gradually starts talking gibberish [laugh]

[ this from shirley => it remind me of Quiet Family ...i really like that humour in that movie ...among the early batch of kmovie i saw and totally enjoyed .~! ^^ ]

oh ya in the interview it was written :

Kim says that < A bittersweet Life > begans with the back of a man walking down a hallway or a road ..while <The Good, the Bad and the Werid > stemmed from the backs of men riding horses or motocycles off toward the sun , into the wilderness ..

=

lol ....i wonder what the background music for a scene like that ..

you can read this article on the http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/ under publication ..

[Guest shred]

3 top actors, 3 leading men, 3 exciting personas

"좋은놈, 나쁜놈, 이상한놈" (Joheun Nom, Nappeun Nom, Isanghan Nom)

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/5778/rbh3nom1gw1.jpg

Image credit to www.honeyhunny.com, title from Korea Pop Wars

that's one badass fanart! just imagine how HOT the official poster would be like :sweatingbullets:

[Guest MRS.le]

[ this from shirley => it remind me of Quiet Family ...i really like that humour in that movie ...among the early batch of kmovie i saw and totally enjoyed .~! ^^ ]

Hi Shirley,

I'm so glad to read that you found The Quiet Family funny... when i watched that, my hubby and I were constantly tickled to laugh and when the movie was over, we were a little disturbed that we would laugh when people were being severed... most people we know don't find the movie very funny.

anyhow, if this new movie has similar humor (i'm already cracked up at the opium scenerio) i'm soooo tripled quadrupled excited!!

[shirley]

Hi Shirley,

I'm so glad to read that you found The Quiet Family funny... when i watched that, my hubby and I were constantly tickled to laugh and when the movie was over, we were a little disturbed that we would laugh when people were being severed... most people we know don't find the movie very funny.

anyhow, if this new movie has similar humor (i'm already cracked up at the opium scenerio) i'm soooo tripled quadrupled excited!!

*high five* ..you mean there are ppl who dun find Quiet Family hilarous ! how is that possible ! keke ..ya everytime i will wonder who going to be the next corpse to be bury ..we running out of burial space ..lol .*yeah * me too .if this is has the same humouir as in Quiet family and what was in bittersweet life ..then it will be fun..

[Guest moochelle]

i'm anticipating this movie soooo much !!! =D

...because jungwoosung is in it

he's so .. *sigh*

^_________^