{"id":22188,"date":"2025-07-25T07:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22188\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:06:04","slug":"no-other-choice-trailer-park-chan-wook-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22188\/","title":{"rendered":"No Other Choice Trailer: Park Chan-Wook Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s something to be excited about: Park Chan-wook is back! The legendary Korean filmmaker \u2013 behind Oldboy<\/a>, and The Handmaiden<\/a>, and Decision To Leave<\/a>, to name but a handful of his masterpieces \u2013 is returning with a new film, No Other Choice, after briefly turning to TV for The Sympathizer<\/a>. And, fittingly for the filmmaker behind the thematically-linked Vengeance Trilogy (that\u2019s Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance<\/a>, and Lady Vengeance<\/a>, sandwiched either side of Oldboy), his latest looks to be a tale of jealousy, rage, and murder \u2013 a thriller with blackly comic elements. Check out the teaser:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no official synopsis for No Other Choice yet, but it\u2019s based on Donald Westlake\u2019s novel The Ax \u2013 in which a man who finds himself cut loose after a lengthy employment resorts to desperate measures when he struggles to get a new job. In the lead role of Man-soo is Lee Byung-hun, who last worked with Director Park on his debut proper, 2000\u2019s Joint Security Area.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, we may get eyes on No Other Choice before the end of the year \u2013 it\u2019ll get its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in late August \/ early September, and is hitting Korean cinemas in September. UK audiences will see the film courtesy of Mubi, who also released Decision To Leave, though a date is not yet set. Here\u2019s hoping one gets announced before anyone turned vengeful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s something to be excited about: Park Chan-wook is back! The legendary Korean filmmaker \u2013 behind Oldboy, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-22188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}