Actors Lee Sun-kyun, front, and Ju Ji-hoon play the lead characters in the disaster blockbuster film “Project Silence." Courtesy of CJ ENM By Lee Gyu-lee Seven months after the death of actor Lee Sun-kyun, one of his last films, the disaster epic, "Project Silence," is set to premiere in local theaters this Friday. Director Kim Tae-gon / Courtesy of CJ ENM “This film has been labeled as ‘Lee Sun-kyun’s final work,’ but as a director, all I could think about was making it well .
.. But I believed I shouldn't deliberately avoid or excessively include elements to avoid that title.
I felt preserving the integrity of this work was the best way to honor Lee,” the film’s director Kim Tae-gon told The Korea Times during an interview at a cafe in Jongno District, Seoul, Wednesday. “I made the film exactly as I originally envisioned. How the external factors affect (the audience) when perceiving the film will vary depending on each person's emotions.
” The big-budget disaster blockbuster revolves around Cha Jung-won (Lee Sun-kyun), who works for the Office of National Security and gets trapped on a foggy bridge with his daughter after a series of car crashes. With the bridge on the verge of collapse and pursued by another threat — weaponized dogs from a military project — Cha struggles to find a way out to survive and protect his daughter. Alongside fellow survivors, including Jo Park (Ju Ji-hoon) and Doctor Yang (Kim Hee-won), he fights to ensure their safety.
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