Rob Cohen will show Korean War
Rob Cohen will show the Korean War through the eyes of a journalist director of the original "Fast and the Furious".
Rob Cohen will start his project in May next year. It's about the conflict between North and South Korea.
"1950" will be the largest project for the Korean film industry. Announced budget belt - $100 million. The film is based on memories of a war correspondent edition «New York Herald Tribune» Marguerite Higgins. A journalist working in London and Paris offices of the newspaper in 1944, then as a military correspondent was assigned to the 7th U.S. Army, which participated in the occupation of Austria. In 1947-1949 he headed the department of «New York Herald Tribune» in Berlin in 1950 - led the Japanese branch of the newspaper, and in June 1950 was at the headquarters of U.S. forces in Korea.
Writers Rachel Long and Brian Pittman will write the history of Higgins travel to the U.S. military through the entire Korean peninsula, which ended with the mass evacuation on the Christmas Eve in December 1950.
About 100 thousand soldiers and civilians as many North Koreans were loaded onto military and commercial vessels and successfully forwarded to South Korea.
Rob Cohen says: "The Korean War is often called the forgotten war. I think it is time to remember it and to show the war through the eyes of journalist Marguerite Higgins. This is our film will be different from other war films. It will be different."
To produce the film will be CJ E & M Pictures from South Korea and the U.S. Grapevine Entertainment.