EXCLUSIVE: Seoul Searching director Benson Lee has signed with Verve.
He was beforehand with WME, having signed on the eve of Seoul Searching‘s premiere on the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, as we advised you on the time.
The Korean-American is at present connected to direct Kpop Superstar for Paramount, with Scooter Braun’s SB Projects producing and Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians) penning the script. He’s labored in drama, docs and industrial manufacturing since breaking by way of within the late Nineties.
Lee can be engaged on a breakdancing documentary that may function unique entry granted by the World DanceSport Federation within the run as much as the 2024 Paris Olympics. We hear different initiatives embrace an Asian-American dance-themed drama sequence set in southern California’s hip-hop scene
He’s greatest recognized for Sundance Film Festival title Seoul Searching, a John Hughes-style comedy set within the Nineteen Eighties a couple of group of Korean teenagers who meet at a summer time camp in Seoul wherein many youngsters have flown in from world wide to attend.
Lee made historical past on the identical fest when his movie Miss Monday was the primary from a Korean-American to be accepted into Dramatic Competition again in 1998 and acquired a Grand Jury Prize for Acting.
He can be behind Sony Pictures’ 3D adaptation of Planet B-Boy, titled Battle of the Year 3D, which starred Chris Brown and Josh Holloway.
Lee continues to be represented by Marathon Management.
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