Korean actor Hoyeon is joining Theo James in Kim Jee-woon’s The Hole thriller.
The indie follows Owen, played by James, as a successful professor living in South Korea and bedridden after a devastating car accident killed his wife, Sandy (Hoyeon). Owen is cared for by Yuna, his Korean mother-in-law, who starts to unravel the truth behind Owen and Sandy’s marriage, only to threaten his road to recovery.
Hoyeon made her acting debut in the first season of Netflix’s Squid Game series, and also appears in Alfonso Cuarón’s psychological thriller Disclaimer for Apple TV+. Hoyeon also has an upcoming starring role in Na Hong-jin’s Hope, opposite Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender.
The Veterans is shopping the international rights to The Hole starting at AFM this week, while CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are representing the U.S. rights. Sam Esmail, Chad Hamilton and Nick Krishnamurthy are producing for Esmail Corp alongside Kimberly Steward and Alex Foster for K Period Media and Andy Sorgie via his Paisan banner.
Jay Choi and Kim Jee-woon are producing with Soon Ho Song, who will serve a co-producer for Anthology Studios. The Hole is written by Christopher Chen and is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Hye-young Pyun.
The movie will have both English and Korean language dialogue and will shoot in the U.S. and Korea starting in the first half of 2025. Recent projects handled by The Veterans banner include Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, and Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, starring Fernanda Montenegro.
Hoyeon is represented by CAA.
