Moon Ji-won, writer of the drama 'Weird Lawyer Woo Young-woo' and the movie 'The Witness', debuts as a feature film director with the movie 'Def Voice'.
On the 15th, the production company Barunson Studio announced that it would produce 'Def Voice' (original work: Def Voice Sign Language Interpreter in the Court - Novel by Masaki Maruyama), the feature film director debut of writer Ji-won Moon.
The feature film 'Def Voice', which will be written and directed by writer Ji-won Moon, tells the story of the main character, Children of Deaf Adult, who catches the real culprit of a terrible murder that occurred 20 years ago. It is expected to unfold in a variety of ways, including the empathetic drama created by unique characters and the three-dimensional fun of a mystery mystery until the true nature of the incident is revealed.
Director Moon Ji-won said, "'Def Voice' is a story about a protagonist who stands on the border between deaf and hearing trying to find his identity as a coda, and at the same time, it is a story about tracing the truth of a murder case that occurred in the deaf community as a 'police officer skilled in sign language.' Sign language." “I will try to make a movie full of beauty and fun as a mystery mystery,” he said.
Since Moon Ji-won started from an extraordinary character and the story inherent in the character itself became the driving force of a highly absorbing development, and even made us reflect on issues that we need to think about together, we look forward to seeing what 'Def Voice', the voice of a deaf person, will be told by him as a writer and director. Collect.
Moon Ji-won, who is familiar as a writer through the movie 'The Witness' and the drama 'Weird Lawyer Woo Young-woo', had been preparing for his debut as a film director by writing and directing short films since 2002 before 'The Witness' won the grand prize at the Lotte Screenplay Contest. He made short films such as 'Keeping the Sea', 'Written on the Body', and 'Cococo Snow!' It was invited to various domestic and international film festivals and won awards.
Writer Moon Ji-won created fun and empathy through the story of the main character, who is on the autism spectrum and is the only witness who can tell the difference between an accident and an incident, standing in court as a witness. 'Witness' won the grand prize in the film category at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards to Jung Woo-sung, who played a lawyer who grew up interacting with a girl.
'Weird Lawyer Woo Young-woo', the next work of writer Moon Ji-won, who created a syndrome not only in Korea but also around the world through Netflix, starts from the assumption of 'Witness''s 'What if a girl grows up to become a lawyer?', and Woo Young-woo, who is on the autism spectrum, plays a large It tells the story of entering a law firm and changing and growing while facing various problems in our society in court each episode. Sympathy for the issues in the colorful characters and events was also naturally elicited. Park Eun-bin, who played the title role Woo Young-woo, also received the grand prize in the TV category at the 59th Baeksang Arts Awards.
Director Moon Ji-won's film 'Def Voice', produced by Barunson Studio, is scheduled to start in 2024 after completing casting.
Kang Min-kyung, Ten Asia reporter kkk39@tenasia.co.kr