Director Kim Hong-seon directs a drama with a production budget of 100 billion won

Kim Hong-seon, director of the movie 'Wolf Hunt', will direct Season 3 of the British drama 'Gangs of London'.

According to foreign media such as the American media Variety on the 17th (local time), director Kim Hong-sun, who directed 'Wolf Hunt', which received awards and was invited to over 40 leading overseas film festivals, including the Toronto Film Festival and the Sitges Film Festival, will advance into overseas works.

Director Kim Hong-seon signed a contract with WME, the world's largest agency, last year. He will join as the main director of the crime action noir masterpiece 'Gangs of London Season 3', produced by Britain's Pulse Films and serviced by Sky TV and America's AMC+. This is the first time for a Korean director to direct a huge overseas franchise TV series with a production cost of over 100 billion won.

'Gangs of London', which is said to be the most overwhelming crime action noir in TV drama history, is a BAFTA (British Academy Award) winning and Emmy nominated series that has huge fans in the US and Europe, with more than 2 million people watching in just one week. A work of art.

Director Kim Hong-seon directed 'The Conspirators', 'Technicians', 'Catch Them', 'Transformation', and 'Wolf Hunt'. Director Kim Hong-seon's 'Wolf Hunt', which was released in theaters last year, received so much attention and praise that it ranked first on Netflix for a month even though it was not an original work, and received rave reviews overseas, including in the U.S. and Europe, including receiving a freshness mark on Rotten Tomatoes. received.

Meanwhile, Season 3 of 'Gangs of London' is currently filming, starting in early October.

Kang Min-kyung, Ten Asia reporter kkk39@tenasia.co.kr