Kim Myung-min wraps marathon movie, chooses disaster next
by javabeans
Kim Myung-min has done melodrama, thriller, sageuk, comedy, sageuk comedy, action, mystery — so now it’s time to take on the disaster genre. He has wrapped filming on his latest movie, Pace Maker, and signed on to star in a movie that I dearly hope adopts a cooler English-language title than its literal translation of Hairworm [연가시].
The movie is about the hairworm parasite, which lives by burrowing into the bodies of insects, emerging from their hosts once grown. Apparently it can even force the hosts to behave unnaturally, like throwing themselves into water. It’s like Alien for the buggy set. *Shudders.* In the movie, the hairworm begins to attack people, who start dying one by one for seemingly no reason, and Kim Myung-min plays a pharmaceutical company salesman who fights to save his family.
Directing is Park Jung-woo, a writer-director who penned screenplays for Jail Breaker and Kick the Moon and directed Dance With the Wind and Big Bang. The movie plans to begin filming in mid-October.
Pace Maker, meanwhile (pictured directly above and below), is the movie in which Kim Myung-min plays a marathon pace maker, a runner who keeps elite marathoners on track for the first half of the race. It’s a necessary role but one that uses him more like a tool than anything else, and his character dreams of running for himself one day, although he’s hindered by the cold marathon coach/director played by Ahn Sung-ki.
Kim’s character strikes up an unlikely friendship with a pole vaulter played by Go Ara, and their meeting scene was actually the last one shot. In it, Kim has been denied entry to the marathoners’ training village when another athlete, national sweetheart Go Ara, happens by and asks him for his help in running an errand. In thanks, she tells him of a secret gap he can use to enter the village.
“Warm human drama” Pace Maker wrapped after four months of filming, and is now in post-production.
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1 Cyoon
September 4, 2011 at 1:16 PM
i love Kim Myung Min, but I'm not quite sure I want to watch this film. Sounds a bit more like a horror than a disaster movie...
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2 yay
September 4, 2011 at 1:16 PM
i really hope they do change the name of the film.
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3 Noelle
September 4, 2011 at 1:37 PM
Eww! So not watching this. Oh god I would be even more paranoid about parasites.
So gonna watch pace maker instead.
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4 Sylvia
September 4, 2011 at 1:49 PM
Ergh, wow, not the right kind of disaster movie for me. *shudder*
But this is excellent, because surely pharmaceutical company salesmen don't have to be so thin and haggard-looking! He can finally eat again! Yay!
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come2noona
September 4, 2011 at 2:11 PM
My thoughts exactly.... let's hope this character has a hearty appetite! KMM is one of my favorites!
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5 Simpli
September 4, 2011 at 2:17 PM
Following what the others said, Hairworm? Kinda reminds me of the movie, The Host and this game:
I warn you that the game is horrifying (in my case). http://www.kongregate.com/games/zeebarf/the-visitor
Anyway, this movie is one I'm gonna skip.
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6 danna
September 4, 2011 at 2:52 PM
I hope this means he won't be losing any weight anymore since its a bit scary to see him like this ...the movie itself doesnt seem like the right kind of monster flick for my taste
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7 craziluver
September 4, 2011 at 3:23 PM
i don't know but sports drama/movies don't appeal me very much, but im going to watch the parasite one because i love kim myung min.
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8 Aly
September 4, 2011 at 3:30 PM
Honestly... I would love to see him in a rom-com. In "Beethoven Virus" I loooved to see him next to Lee Ji Ah. He has a kind of sexy older-man charisma...
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9 eggy
September 4, 2011 at 3:42 PM
Ewwwwwwwww. I'd prefer Ha Ji Won's disaster over this one. Although I adore Go Ara.. but bugs!! >_<
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10 Dav
September 4, 2011 at 5:00 PM
EXCELLENT. Unlike everyone else, this is right up my alley. Although I hope he does not extend his method acting to parasites.
Also, Kim Myung-Min, you're hurting my heart with the way you're not taking care of yourself. Please, please, think of your health. I got gallstones from a much less dramatic weight loss, and would not wish those on my worst enemy.
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11 mntnh
September 4, 2011 at 6:42 PM
Oh boy. That man needs about 5 cheeseburgers per meal >.<
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Ani
September 4, 2011 at 7:13 PM
Agree.... But... He needs something to eat, but can we not make it 5 cheeseburgers? 1 is fine enough if we're giving him something to eat, but he can just as easily gain weight eating something that's less likely to give him a heartattack from the fat. XP
P.S. I know he lost weight for this movie, but I hope he gains it back at a healthy rate. X/
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12 anotheraddict
September 4, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Maybe if we're lucky, we can find a theater screening Hairworm and Fermentation Family back-to-back! KMM is a great actor, but you'd have to pay me a small fortune to get me to watch Hairworm.
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13 Jaeminuf
September 5, 2011 at 1:37 AM
after crying for an hour with Scent of a Woman, I needed a pick me up so I watched Detective K. Laughed like a loon for two hours. Kim Myung Min - I heart you! Thank you for being so frigging brilliant at everything you do.
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14 conan
September 5, 2011 at 3:55 AM
Hairworms crawling in people's bodies? Um... Yeah... I'll have to skip this one. Even though Kim Myung-min is one halla an actor. Pacemaker, on the other hand, is something I'd love to watch. Can't wait!
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15 km
September 5, 2011 at 1:32 PM
can't wait to watch both pacemaker and hairworm! have only just finished watching my love by my side (closer to heaven) with ha ji won, and it was incredibly touching. the lengths to which he went made it so real and all the more compelling. i think this is definitely an actor i'll continue keeping an eye out for :)
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16 Cap Rice
September 5, 2011 at 7:36 PM
Oh, come on. What's wrong with "Hairworm"? It's cute.
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