Feature directing debut in the works for Yoo Ji-tae

6 November 23, 2008

Feature directing debut in the works for Yoo Ji-tae

by javabeans

Yoo Ji-tae is readying to don his director’s hat once more for his debut feature film. The 32-year-old actor has had remarkable success in his acting roles (Oldboy, Traces of Love), and has also enjoyed a good amount of praise for his previous three short films, which he wrote and directed.

Yoo’s directorial debut in 2003, the short film Bicycle Boy, was well-received, and his follow-up 2005 short How Do the Blind Dream starred Oh Dal-su (The Good, The Bad, The Weird) and went to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France. His third short, Out of My Intention, had its own theatrical release earlier this year and screened at several short film festivals.

Although there are a fair number of Hollywood actors who branch into directing, it’s rare for that to happen in the Korean industry. Kim Hae-gon is one case of a screenwriter taking on acting, but Yoo is unusual in that he’s an A-list actor branching into writing and directing, the first of that rare breed since 1970s actor-director Ha Myung-joong.

Yoo has revealed that he has finished writing the feature screenplay, but wants to punch it up to make it more entertaining. On the acting side, he’s wrapping up promotional activities for his movie Soonjung Manhwa while starting shooting on his upcoming drama with Choi Ji-woo, A Star’s Lover (she’s the star, he’s the lover).

Via DongA

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1 pabo ceo reom

November 23, 2008 at 4:42 PM

Where does he find all the time to do this?!

Regardless, I can definitely appreciate creative talent when I see it and Yoo is just oozing with it isn' he?

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2 Bradamante

November 24, 2008 at 4:13 AM

If really Yoo Ji-tae wants to devote himself to directing, then I think that his walk on three different roads would be very complicated.
But, the speech could be turned over the exact opposite.
In this way, a mind devoted to the three axes of the creative visual language could be enriched only to new perspectives, giving us a passionate vision of countless new heavens of reflections.
Good luck, Yoo Ji-tae.

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3 sonam

November 24, 2008 at 7:40 AM

Look at that forehead. You know he's a thinking man. And a gorgeous one too. He was so good in the last scene of Oldboy....the moment he realizes he doesn't feel better after taking his revenge. That split second when his expression changes from triumph to misery.