24 billion space science fiction’Seungriho’ Song Joong-ki “This is my first time swimming in space…I remembered’Gunnis'”

“If it’s too fast, the ship looks small and light, and if it’s too heavy, it doesn’t have the force we want, so we put a lot of effort into balancing the two.”
This is the words of director Sunghee Sung-hee, the space science fiction movie’Seungriho,’ which will be released in more than 190 countries around the world through Netflix on the 5th. Was there any film in the past where you had to worry about the speed of a spaceship? At an online press conference with actors Song Joong-ki, Kim Tae-ri, Jin Seon-gyu, and Yoo Hae Jin on the 2nd, he was proud of the modifier’Korea’s first space science fiction blockbuster’. The production cost of’Seungri-ho’ cost 24 billion won.

Song Joong-ki said, “This is the story of four bums living on a space sweeper in 2092. It is an explanation of “Sci-Fi activity of the haphazards without a sense of justice”. The stage will be 70 years later, and humanity will be divided into’poor’ living on a deserted earth and’citizen’ living in UTS, a new home in space satellite orbit. The’Seungri’, a sweeping ship with a genius spaceship pilot Tae-ho (Song Joong-ki), a pirate captain (Kim Tae-ri), an engine engineer Tiger Park (Jin Seon-gyu), and a harpooner robot (Hae-Jin Yu), was mass destruction Dorothy, a robot in the form of a human kid known as a weapon, jumps into a dangerous chase.

Director Cho accidentally heard a story about space debris from a friend 10 years ago, and refined his idea to reach the current film. He and Song Joong-gi drew a fantasy melody of a wild boy, and they met for the second time after the movie’The Wolf Boy’ (2012), which mobilized 6.9 million viewers. Song Joong-ki, who heard the story of this movie at the time of’The Wolf Boy’, said, “I made up my mind that I should appear” 10 years later when Director Jo handed me a screenplay. “The director has never given me a cool role. This time, I always got a bit of oil, and when I was a wolf boy, I got dirt. But on the inside, they are pure and neat roles. “The reason I like the work of director Cho Sung-hee” expressed affection.

Like a movie that unfolds the action inside and outside the vast universe, future cities, and spaceships, most scenes have VFX (special visual effects) effects. Eight major Korean VFX companies joined and over 1,000 VFX workers participated. There must have been anxiety about visuals that have never been tried in Korea. The actors agreed that they appeared because they felt trust in Director Cho’s meticulous preparation. Hae-Jin Hae, who challenged Korea’s first robot motion capture by taking the role of Robot Updong, a computer graphic (CG) character, said, “I was worried at first how the scenario would be imaged, but the director drew a picture on the whiteboard at the first meeting. And explained). The scenario is also fun, and if it is combined well, there will be good results, I thought.”
Was there any burden of advocating Korea’s first space science fiction movie?

“I think the coach must have felt the burden of feeling the national team, and I was excited and excited. Like being a child. When I first saw the screenplay, I remembered the movie “Goonis” I watched with my friends when I was a child.”
“When it comes to science fiction movies, we’re too tamed in Hollywood movies. I think our movie really showed what it would look like if it came out of Korea. I think’Seungri-ho’ is very Korean.” (Kim Tae-ri)
It wasn’t easy to imagine a robot character and a background to be synthesized in CG in post-production in a green studio with nothing. Song Joong-ki’s most troublesome scene was swimming in space. “I had to express gravity in the scene cleaning the outside of the spaceship, but it was difficult because I had never taken it.”

Hae-Jin Hae-Jin went through a complicated procedure for each shoot, wearing a special costume with a sensor that can capture his movements for motion capture, and a blue costume for later CG on top of it. I saw it.” “Eopdong is a robot, but I thought he was such a person with a heart,” he said. “Each of them has a gait, so just looking at the back, I can feel who is that, but when I watch the movie, I can see my gestures. “I was curious about how it would look while acting. It was a new experience for me too, but the people I worked with also struggled. I filmed once without me, and when I was there, there was a technical procedure.”

It was a state-of-the-art site, but there was also an analogue struggle. The spacecraft engine room, which is the work room of the engineer Tiger Park, played by Jin Seon-gyu, was filmed in the engine room of a large ship moored in an actual port. Jin Seon-gyu said, “When I actually docked, I had to turn the engine back on, so I couldn’t hear all the staff and the director. At this time, I would have acted, cut, and acted.”
Hollywood actor Richard Armitage (‘The Hobbit”First Avenger’), who plays Sullivan, the founder of the space city in the play, said through a video in the UK, “Thank you for letting me join the movie that the Korean film industry will be very proud of.” He also said his best regards, “My favorite Korean food”. “I taught mulnaengmyeon with a little bit of vinegar to (eat it) and it was so delicious.” Song Joong-ki smiled and turned back.

For him, this movie was of special significance. It was a reunion with Director Jo, who succeeded in acting as a werewolf in’Wolf Boy’ and even a box office, and the psychological consensus was great with Taeho’s character in the play. He said, “After seeing the scenario, the word’desperation’ first came to my mind to Taeho.” “I started thinking that he was a stagnant person. In a state of despair, Taeho (‘Seungriho’) met his colleagues and thought (and acting) that he was a person who gradually gained the courage and will to grasp the strings in life.”

‘Seungriho’, which received attention as a new attempt by Korean movies, was delayed on Chuseok due to Corona 19 while trying to release the theater last summer, and eventually released through online streaming (OTT) Netflix. Director Jo Sung-hee said, “It’s not just a feeling of excitement, but a heart of gratitude.” “As I have seen it in many countries, various films are being made in Korea, so I hope that audiences around the world will know.” Kim Tae-ri said, “When you watch it at home, you have a lot of sound, so if you watch it like a movie theater, you can enjoy it more realistically.”
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