“Great Outcast,” a 10-part Korean series set to appear in Canneseries next month, is a companion piece to “Concrete Utopia,” last year’s hit film that was chosen as South Korea’s Oscar contender.
Both the Lotte Cultureworks series and “Concrete Utopia,” a dystopian drama-thriller set in a post-apocalyptic Seoul, are adapted from the best-selling webtoon “Joerful Outcast” by Kim Soong Nyung. The film has continually been compared to William Golding’s seminal 1954 novel “Lord of the Flies” and its 1964 film adaptation.
Using the first part of the webtoon, the series follows Dong-hyun, a high school student who barely survives daily bullying at school. “Just when he wanted everything to be dead, a powerful and inexplicable earthquake destroys his school. Trapped in remote conditions, hierarchy and power shift as students struggle to survive, while constant meltdowns and accidents kill more students. In this collapsing and extreme world, true human nature begins to awaken,” said Lotte in a synopsis provided.
Produced by Climax Studio, which has made hit shows “DP” and “Jung-E” for Netflix, the show is directed by Baek Jong-yeol (Netflix’s ‘Believer 2’ from a script by Kim Bo-tong , represented by CAA (“PD”).
Its cast is led by Jim Ji-an “DP” and the upcoming season 2 of “Squid Game”; Sung Yu-bin (“Mr. Sunshine”); and Cho Hyun-chul (“DP”, Inspector Koo”).
Climax Studio also produced a film sequel to “Concrete Utopia” called “Badland Hunters,” which was sold as a Netflix exclusive and aired in January of this year. Directed by Heo Myung-haeng, “Badland Hunters” starred Korean cinema’s biggest star, Don Lee (“The Roundup”).
“We are excited to once again participate in Canneseries with ‘Great Outcast’, which was based on the same webtoon as our Korean Oscar nominee ‘Concrete Utopia’, which ranked among Korea’s top ten box office films last year. ,” said Choi Byung-hwan, CEO of Lotte Cultureworks.
“It’s an honor to bring such unique and thought-provoking content like ‘Great Outcast’ to the international stage and (we) look forward to increasing the exposure of Korean content through high-quality events like Canneseries,” said Hugh Cha, head of global partnerships at agency.
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