Kim Jee-woon is set to make his return since 2018's lacklustre “Illang: The Wolf Brigade“, although it is not quite as one might expect. The hitmaker is not making a feature film at the moment and is instead going the Park Chan-wook way by finally making his debut on the small screen. His latest project, “Dr. Brain”, is confirmed to air on Apple TV+ by the end of this year.
“Dr. Brain” is Apple TV Plus's first original Korean drama, a science-fiction thriller based on a webtoon, and is described as a medical mystery thriller about what a genius brain scientist goes through while accessing the brain of a dead person. Lee Sun-kyun, who international audience will now be very familiar with thanks to “Parasite”, plays the leading role, and he is joined by Teo Yoo (“Vertigo”), Lee Yoo-young (“Grass”) and Seo Ji-hye (“Rampant”).
“The setting of accessing the brain and reading memories itself was interesting”, director Kim Jee-woon said. “If we can see what others saw, heard, and experienced in the brain under the name of memory, the case can be reconstructed. The main character's journey to follow mysterious events, as if he were looking at them from their respective perspectives and putting together puzzles through their remembered moments, it is fun in the story itself, and I think we can show you a new and interesting genre of SF thriller”.
“I also liked the theme of the main character being aware of the deficiencies and contradictions in him, recovering broken relationships, and growing up”, he said. “I'm looking forward to collaborating with Apple, which has special know-how and respect for original content”.
