Kim Yoon-seok's management has confirmed that the actor/director is all set to play the legendary naval hero Admiral Yi Sun-sin in director Kim Han-min's new project “Noryang” (translated title).
“Noryang” will see the completion of Kim Han-min's trilogy on Yi Sun-sin. He first told the naval commander's story in the smash hit “The Admiral: Roaring Currents”, currently the highest grossing Korean film of all time at the domestic box-office, with Choi Min-sik playing the character. “Hansan” (translated title), his follow-up to the 2014 film, is currently in production with Park Hae-il playing a younger version of the commander in the first full-scale war with the Japanese since the invasion.
Kim Yoon-seok will be the fourth actor to portray the character on screen. The naval strategist commander, whose statue still stands proudly at Hwanghwamun Plaza, Seoul, was also played in a fictional narrative in the 2005 period action-comedy “Heaven's Gate” by Park Joong-hoon.
Kim is currently on the sets of director Ryoo Seung-wan's COVID-delayed action film “Escape from Mogadishu”, while Kim Han-min is still working on “Hansan”. Production on “Noryang” is estimated to get underway once that is finished.
