Acclaimed Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (“Oldboy,” “Decision To Leave”) is finally back this year with a new genre-bending feature effort, as “No Other Choice” is coming in September and is heading to the Venice Film Festival, as it is counted among the big projects at the Italian event.
A new teaser trailer has found its way online recently as the South Korean movie’s international distribution is at MUBI, while NEON is handling the North American release with CJ Entertainment overseeing the local Korean release.
A logline for “No Other Choice” courtesy of MUBI:
A man gets laid off from the paper company where he worked for 25 years. Some time later, and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
Lee Byung-Hun stars in the movie as Yoo Man-soo in an adaptation of the Donald E. Westlake horror novel “The Ax.” The actor is a massive star in Korea with roles in the serial killer thriller “I Saw The Devil,” and cheeky Western “The Good, the Bad, the Weird.” Of course, he’s had an established awareness in the West thanks to those aforementioned projects alongside things like Netflix‘s “Squid Game,” “The Magnificent Seven” remake, “Red 2,” “Terminator Genisys,” and the first two “G.I. Joe” films as Storm Shadow (Andrew Koji was recast in the role for “Snake Eyes“).
Other cast members assembled for the dark comedy include Son Ye-jin (“The Last Princess”), Park Hee-soon (“My Name”), Lee Sung-min (“The Spy Gone North”), Yeom Hye-ran (“The Glory”), Cha Seung-won (“Believer”), and Yoo Yeon-seok (“Mr. Sunshine”).
You can watch the teaser trailer for “No Other Choice” below, as the pic is heading to the Venice Film Festival as we wait for a more concrete domestic theatrical date from NEON.
