Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander will coincide again in the Korean film ‘Hope’

The Oscar winner Alice Vikander (‘The Danish Girl’) and Oscar nominee michael fassbender (12 Years A Slave) have been cast in key roles in the film ‘Hope’, the first project of acclaimed Korean director Na Hong-Jin since the 2016 hit ‘The Stranger’.

The film, which will be mostly in Korean, will follow the residents of Hopo Port, where a mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote port city.. Before long, the residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they’ve never encountered before.

The rest of the casting and pre-production are underway for a shoot later this year in Korea. Everything points to that Fassbender and Vikandercouple since 2014, will speak English in the film and wanted to participate after being impressed by the director’s previous work. This will be the second time they appear together in the same movie after ‘The Light Between Oceans’. South Korean actress Hoyeon Jung, seen in ‘The Squid Game’, is also in the cast.

Korean producer and distributor Plus M Entertainment, owned by the Megabox multiplex chain, is behind the project after recently signing a financing and distribution deal with Na, also known for Korean films ‘The Chaser’ and ‘The Yellow Sea’. . the cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo, known for notable works such as ‘Parasites’ and ‘Burning’, is also immersed in the projectmarking his second collaboration with the filmmaker after ‘The Stranger’.

‘Hope’ will follow the lines of the filmmaker’s previous films, all of which have been blockbusters. ‘The Stranger’ screened in Cannes before earning $50 million worldwide on an estimated budget of $6 million. That movie shows how a mysterious disease begins to spread after a stranger comes to a town. A policeman, involved in the incident, is forced to solve the mystery to save his daughter.

The director acknowledged to the media: “Often the goodwill of one person can lead to an unintended catastrophe simply because of differences in perspective. My hope for this film is to cinematically capture that phenomenon in a way that hasn’t yet been done.” seen”.

As for the other works of the acting couple, the star of ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Tomb Raider’, Vikander, will play Katherine Parr alongside Jude Law as Henry VIII in Karim Ainouz’s film, ‘Firebrand’ . ‘Jobs’, ‘X-Men’ and ’12 Years a Slave’ star Fassbender will next appear in Taika Watiti’s ‘Next Goal Wins’ and will star in David Fincher’s Netflix thriller ‘The Killer.’