According to media site Deadline on July 26 (KST), director Hong Won-ki (Connecting, Urban Myths, and Goedam) will be responsible for directing “Unnie”, a K-pop thriller inspired by BLACKPINK and the K-pop industry as a whole.
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“Unnie”,which is set against the competitive K-pop world, is based on the 2023 Black List script from Lynn Q. Yu and billed as a thriller in the vein of “Black Swan”.
So far, casting for the film is underway and production is slated to begin in Seoul and Los Angeles in January.
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Meanwhile, scriptwriter Lynn Q. Yu previously revealed that the idea for “Unnie” began during COVID, when she “fell down the K-pop rabbit hole” through the BLACKPINK documentary “Light Up the Sky”.