Director Yeon Sang-ho of "The Swarm" drew laughter by saying it was "only natural" that Jun Ji-hyun's face is frequently shown in close-ups in the film.
On the afternoon of the 20th, a press screening for the film "The Swarm" was held at CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall in Seoul. Director Yeon Sang-ho and lead actors Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Changwook, Shin Hyun-been and Kim Shin-rock attended the event.
"The Swarm" (directed by Yeon Sang-ho, distributed by SHOWBOX, produced by Wowpoint (WOWPOINT)·Smilegate, co-produced by Midnight Studio) is a work that depicts the struggle of isolated survivors inside a building sealed off by a mysterious infectious outbreak as they fight against infected people who evolve into unpredictable forms. It heralds a new evolution of the zombie genre while announcing the birth of a new species different from conventional zombies, and is expected to present another evolution of the genre.
Yeon Sang-ho's new film "The Swarm," who made "Train to Busan," "The Face" and "Hell," was officially invited to the midnight screening section at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, received a seven-minute standing ovation immediately after the screening, and was pre-sold to 124 countries overseas. It has drawn global interest from around the world even before its domestic release.
In this film, despite being a zombie movie, Jun Ji-hyun's beautiful face is often shown in close-ups filling the large screen, and director Yeon Sang-ho laughed, saying, "Jun Ji-hyun close-ups are only natural."
"Scenes that close up on Jun Ji-hyun stand out. Did you do that deliberately to capture her beauty?" asked a reporter, to which Yeon replied, "Because she's a film actor. When a film actor is captured by the camera and appears on screen, that itself becomes the film," adding, "It was a movie in which rules were constantly changing and the audience followed along. If at some point the audience misses the rules, they cannot enjoy the film. The face that finds and realizes the rules was the face of Kwon Se-jung. Because it feels like the period or comma of a clear sentence, it inevitably kept appearing within the film."
Meanwhile, "The Swarm" opens on the 21st.
[Photo] reporter Min Kyung-hoon
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