Love and Wrestling Comedy to Be Released in 2018
Love+stling (working title) has finished shooting. The film is a family comedy about a love triangle involving a professional wrestler father, his son and the woman, his son has a crush on, who happens to fall in love with the father. From last year’s
LUCK-KEY, to this year’s
Confidential Assignment and
A Taxi Driver, all of
YOO Hae-jin’s films have been successful at the box office. YOO will play the father character while
KIM Min-jae will play his son.
LEE Sung-kyoung will be the source of the love triangle and
HWANGWOO Seul-hye will also appear as a woman YOO meets through a blind date.
Actor
YOO Hae-jin has become a bankable box office draw while this feature film will be the silver screen debut for rookie actors
LEE Sung-kyoung and
KIM Min-jae. LEE has starred in trendy television dramas and made a name for herself through series such as
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016-207),
Doctor Crush (2016), and
Cheese in the Trap (2016).
KIM Min-jae made a special appearance in
The Mayor, but is also more well known from his work in dramas such as
Romantic Doctor,
Teacher Kim (2016-2017) and
Twenty Again (2015). KIM can also be seen in the upcoming period film
Myung-dang (working title) with
CHO Seung-woo,
JI Sung,
KIM Sung-kyun, and
BAEK Yoon-sik. The film will serve as a prelude to his active filmography in 2018.
Love+stling will be helmed by director
KIM Dae-woong, produced by Annapurna Pictures, and distributed by
Lotte Entertainment. It is scheduled for release next year.