Busan Market: Finecut Picks up ‘Brave Citizen’ Webtoon Adaptation
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Korean sales firm, Finecut is using the Asian Contents & Film Market on the sidelines of the Busan International Film Festival to launch comic action film “Brave Citizen.” The film, now in post-production, is an adaptation of a webtoon which ranked first in popularity when it was serialized on the platform Comico.
It was later serialized on another Korean platform Naver Webtoon and recorded 2.27 million views on its Line Webtoon platform in Taiwan.
It tells the tale of female former boxing champion who has become a substitute high school teacher. Having witnessed intolerable violence, she dons a mask and throws her first punch for justice.
The film is directed by Park Jin-pyo, an established director of numerous Korean commercial films including “Love Forecast,” “Voice of a Murder” and “You Are My Sunshine.” Production is by StudioN, (Netflix’s “Sweet Home” TVing’s “Yumi’s Cell, and VOL Media (“Josee”).
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