Korea’s Anthology, India’s Panorama staff on Korean remake of Drishyam – Deadline

Kumar Mangat Pathak’s Mumbai-based Panorama Studios is teaming with South Korea’s Anthology Studios, co-founded by former Warner Bros exec Jay Choi, Cobweb director Kim Jee-woon and Parasite star Music Kang-ho, on a Korean-language remake of India’s Drishyam franchise. 

The 2 studios will collectively produce the remake, marking the primary collaboration between an Indian and a Korean studio, and the primary time a Hindi movie is being formally remade within the Korean language. Anthology plans to remake all three movies within the Drishyam franchise, with manufacturing on the primary installment anticipated to start out subsequent 12 months. 

US-based Jack Nguyen, who beforehand labored with Pathak on comedy Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge, is on board as Government Producer.  

Panorama produced the Hindi variations of Drishyam (2015) and its sequel Drishyam 2 (2022), which each starred Ajay Devgn and have been large hits in India. Initially a Malayalam-language movie, the franchise has been remade in a number of Indian languages.

Panorama is lining up a 3rd installment within the Hindi model of the franchise, and has remake rights to all three movies for all territories outdoors of India. Remakes in Japan and the US are additionally within the works.

Pathak stated: “I’m excited that the Drishyam franchise is being made in Korean, a primary for a Hindi movie. This is not going to solely improve its attain outdoors India however may also put Hindi cinema on the worldwide map. All these years, now we have been impressed by Korean fare, now they’ve discovered a muse in one in all our movies.”

Choi stated: “We’re thrilled to have a possibility to remake a massively profitable Hindi movie with a contact of originality from Korean cinema. And the remake has better significance as the primary main co-production between Korea and India. By our partnership, we will convey one of the best of each Indian and Korean cinema and make a significant remake that’s as wonderful as the unique.” 

Individually, China Movie Group produced a Chinese language model of the primary Malayalam-language installment of the franchise, Sheep With out A Shepherd, which was an enormous hit in China in 2019. 

Anthology Studios was co-founded by former Warner Bros Korea exec Jay Choi, director Kim Jee-woon (Cobweb) and Parasite star Music Kang-ho, who received greatest actor at Cannes final 12 months for Dealer. The corporate is a subsidiary of Korea’s SLL (previously generally known as JTBC Studios). 

Earlier than founding Anthology, the trio labored collectively on The Age Of Shadows, which premiered at Venice movie competition in 2016, and The Good, The Dangerous, The Bizarre, which premiered in Cannes in 2008. 

Based by Pathak, who can also be Ajay Devgn’s supervisor, and his son Abhishek Pathak, Panorama is a number one producer and distributor in India. Along with blockbusters like Drishyam, Pathak has produced smaller, critically-acclaimed movies together with Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara. 

The corporate has additionally arrange a global distribution outfit, Panorama Studios Worldwide (PSI), headed by worldwide Murli Chhatwani and Rajat Goswani, which is dealing with movies from Panorama Studios, Ajay Devgn Movies and Luv Ranjan’s Luv Movies. Panorama has additionally launched a music division, Panorama Music, to launch its personal soundtracks. 

“We consider in producing a slate of blockbusters, throughout totally different languages, and buying smaller movies as a option to help new expertise,” stated Pathak. “We are able to take smaller movies to worldwide markets. In some circumstances, we’ve acquired impartial movies, which has enabled the director to make their second movie.”

An instance of that’s comedy drama Love & Shukla, which Panorama  acquired when its Netflix license expired, which enabled Siddhartha Jatla to complete his second movie, In The Stomach Of The Tiger.

PSI’s slate right here in Cannes additionally contains Hindi-language drama Pachhattar Ka Chhora, starring Randeep Hooda and Sanjay Mishra, and Gujarati-language horror Vash, which Panorama is remaking in Hindi.