When Kristin Wiig hosted "Saturday Night Live" this season, one of the best sketches was a phony commercial for a new Disney Channel series in which Wiig plays a Korean water ghost who comes back from the dead to haunt her children and pressure them into doing their chores. Adam Sandler, who has "Grown Ups 2" shifting the cinematic paradigm later this summer, recently signed on to a project that is eerily similar, so much so that it's positively haunting.
Sandler will star in and produce "Hello Ghost," which will be helmed by original "Harry Potter" director Chris Columbus. The script, by "Admission"'s Karen Croner and based on a South Korean film directed by Young-tak Kim, concerns a man who, after unsuccessfully trying to kill himself, is visited by four ghosts. They won't leave him alone until he helps them grant one wish each.
The synopsis sounds like the...
Sandler will star in and produce "Hello Ghost," which will be helmed by original "Harry Potter" director Chris Columbus. The script, by "Admission"'s Karen Croner and based on a South Korean film directed by Young-tak Kim, concerns a man who, after unsuccessfully trying to kill himself, is visited by four ghosts. They won't leave him alone until he helps them grant one wish each.
The synopsis sounds like the...
- 6/14/2013
- by Drew Taylor
- Moviefone
Hello Ghost aka Hellowoo Goseuteu (2010) South Korea
Written and Directed by Young-Tak Kim
Fantasia imdb
South Korea has a difficulty with suicides. On one hand they have one of, if not the highest rates of suicides in the developed world. At around 30 suicides per 100,000 people per year, only Lithuania is as bad. (By comparison, Canada and the U.S.A are around 11 suicides per 100,000 people per year.)
At the same time, because there are many Roman Catholics in South Korea, the belief that suicide is a sin – in fact, the ultimate sin – is widespread. Which may help explain why suicide is not discussed. If (for example) a student snaps during a hellish exam week and kills himself, many schools forbid discussing the death.
All of these attitudes to suicide, its (for want of a better word) popularity, societal disapproval of the practice and a need for secrecy were previously on...
Written and Directed by Young-Tak Kim
Fantasia imdb
South Korea has a difficulty with suicides. On one hand they have one of, if not the highest rates of suicides in the developed world. At around 30 suicides per 100,000 people per year, only Lithuania is as bad. (By comparison, Canada and the U.S.A are around 11 suicides per 100,000 people per year.)
At the same time, because there are many Roman Catholics in South Korea, the belief that suicide is a sin – in fact, the ultimate sin – is widespread. Which may help explain why suicide is not discussed. If (for example) a student snaps during a hellish exam week and kills himself, many schools forbid discussing the death.
All of these attitudes to suicide, its (for want of a better word) popularity, societal disapproval of the practice and a need for secrecy were previously on...
- 7/22/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
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