Seo In-gook fights for survival twelve times in Death’s Game

by Jenzy

The latest teaser for TVING’s Death’s Game continues the drama’s promotional run of doing what it does best: highlighting the star-studded cast and high-stakes premise.

The concept is simple enough: Seo In-gook (Cafe Minamdang) plays Yi-jae. He’s single, jobless, and a recent victim of a crypto scam that drained all his savings. Ready to call it quits on life, he jumps off a building, only to find Death, played by Park So-dam (Record of Youth), on the other side. She’s pissed he would treat his life so lightly, so as punishment, he is cursed to be reborn in 12 bodies, all of them fated for some kind of unfortunate end. The catch is that if he can evade his fated death in one of those bodies, he’ll be allowed to live the rest of his life in that body.

The teaser itself is more of the same as previous versions. Death dangles Yi-jae off a cliff where skeleton monsters wait at the bottom. She drops him, and he regains his bearings in a prison cell as Lee Jae-wook (Alchemy of Souls 2), in a plane as Choi Siwon (Work Later, Drink Now 2), and in an interrogation room as Jang Seung-jo (Strangers Again). The clock has begun. We see a few of the gruesome deaths Yi-jae will have to undergo: dismemberment, falling out of a plane, getting shot, and burning up to a crisp. All the while, we hear a voiceover conversation where he cries out to Death, “What did I do to deserve this?” She responds, “This is for coming to me before I came to get you. But if you escape me in one of these bodies, I’ll let you live.”

While this proposition might be attractive when he’s in the body of the mega-agile Lee Jae-wook or the mega-attractive Go Yoon-jung (Moving), it’s notably less so when he’s in, say, the body of bullied high-schooler Kim Kang-hoon (Reborn Rich). But as he goes through each iteration of himself, Yi-jae finds more conviction in his will to live: “This is an opportunity. I’m not gonna die like this.” This all culminates in the final scene where he drops in on Death and grabs her gun, aims it at her head, and pulls the trigger as the screen goes black. Looks like two can play at this game after all.

Directed and adapted by Ha Byung-hoon (18 Again, Go Back Spouses), Death’s Game will be available for streaming on TVING on December 15.

Via Sports Kyunghang

 
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