BREAKING: Korean producer Hyunwoo Thomas Kim | Indian Movie News
Since nearly 10 years, Korean producer Hyunwoo Thomas Kim of Kross Pictures has quietly set up base in Mumbai and has been making some attention-grabbing, out-of-the-box Indian movies like Te3n (2016), Jaane Jaan (2023), Blind (2023), Saakini Daakini (2022) and many others. An article in Mid-Day, by Mayank Shekhar, documented his journey in India and a lot more.
Hyunwoo Thomas Kim explained how he determined to set up an workplace in India. He revealed that in 2014, he frequently acquired emails from a company named ‘Balaji’ and he initially assumed that it was spam! One day, when he opened the mail, he realized that the distinguished manufacturing home, Balaji Motion Pictures, has been mailing and asking for the rights of The Devotion Of Suspect X for a Hindi remake.
Hyunwoo Thomas Kim needed to know who would direct the remake. He was told that Sujoy Ghosh has been signed. Hyunwoo noticed Sujoy’s Kahaani (2012) and was so impressed that he flew down to Mumbai to meet Sujoy and others. After the assembly, he gave them the remake rights too.
Hyunwoo Thomas Kim said in the Mid-Day interview that he was amazed by Mumbai, as everybody spoke English and hence, it was simple to do business. He began frequenting India more. He remarked, “I figured, India has a huge market, great directors, actors… What it lacks is writers of the calibre in Korea. There was a gap to fill. Initially, people thought I was crazy to spend so much time/money [in Mumbai]. Or that I had a girlfriend in India. I don’t!”
However, The Devotion Of Suspect X was finally remade as Jaane Jaan only in 2023. When requested why it did not get made means back in 2014, he replied that Drishyam (2013) had already been launched and was impressed by the same story. Hyunwoo Thomas Kim confessed that he needed to sue the makers of Drishyam, but did not as “Ekta Kapoor backed off”.
However, Hyunwoo Thomas Kim gained the case against the Kannada hit Pushpaka Vimana (2017), which was a remake of Lee Hwan-kyung’s exceptional outcome In Cell No. 7 (2013), whose rights he holds. The Bombay High Court handed an order restraining the filmmakers of the Kannada movie from awarding any rights in relation to satellite tv for pc or telecast rights.
Speaking of his forthcoming movies, Hyunwoo Thomas Kim revealed that he has approached Akshay Kumar for the remake of a Korean movie. He acknowledged, “Just yesterday, I texted Akshay Kumar, who’s in London, asking him to watch a particular film that everyone in the industry knows about. Sujoy [Ghosh] has already worked on the draft. If Akshay agrees, we have a project.”
In the same interview, he also said that he has been acquired warmly by the Hindi movie industry, “I’ve met with everyone, including Shah Rukh Khan, who first messaged me about a script.”
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