‘Riceboy Sleeps’ Director Anthony Shim to Direct ‘Offerings’ Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Anthony Shim, the Canadian Korean director behind Toronto festival hit “Riceboy Sleeps,” is attached as writer and director of a film adaptation of “Offerings” an acclaimed Korean coming-of-age novel.
Anonymous Content and Anthology Studios are to produce. “Offerings” tells the story of Dae, a young Korean American investment banker who finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default during the 1990s Asian Financial Crisi.
As he and his fellow bankers work with Korean officials to execute a sovereign bond offering, his own father is living on borrowed time in the U.S.
When Dae’s closest friend, a scion of one of Korea’s biggest chaebol, asks his help in a business sale which would salvage the conglomerate but also uphold a tradition of corruption, Dae finds himself in personal crisis, and has to face the true cost of prioritizing his personal ambitions over his family’s legacy.
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