Classic Korean horror film WHISPERING CORRIDORS to get a Chinese remake.
Reporting from the Busan market in China, Variety has revealed that Park Ki-hyung’s Korean horror masterpiece WHISPERING CORRIDORS will be receiving a Chinese language remake, apparently to be called simply WHISPERING CORRIDOR. Only one corridor. Just one.
From Variety:
Production will be handled by Beijing-based Beautiful Creative Force Culture Media, October Pictures Seoul branch, and the original franchises production house Cine2000. Zhen Qin, who studied film directing in Koreas Chungang University and directed Twin Spirit, a horror film starring a Korean actress last year, will direct the remake. According to October Pictures producer Charles Kim, the remake deal has been made due to the growing demand for genre films in the ever-expanding Chinese market.
WHISPERING CORRIDORS was a sensation in Korea and spawned four loosely connected sequels. The film is a supernatural horror movie about a ghost rampaging through a girls school. Problem is, China refuses to make ghost-centric films and considering they have no all-girls school in China. Needless to say this will no doubt be a radically different picture…
We are currently developing the script that the censorship board hopefully will not reject, said the Chinese exec producer Liu Hongbin. We chose Corridor because it is an all-time classic Korean horror franchise that deeply influenced audiences in both Korea and China, and I promise that this Chinese version will not be a simple spin-off, nor a naive remake.
SHOCK will lay more info about the project on you when we get it.
