A galaxy of K-pop stars-turned-actors is probably going to attract music and cinema followers to a brand new South Korean crypto-themed film that can start streaming on main worldwide platforms in the approaching days.
As reported final 12 months, the pop star Kwon Hyun-bin, aka Viini, of the K-pop boyband JBJ, was recruited to play the lead position in what was initially filmed as a mini-series, however later edited right into a film. Originally tentatively named Romantic Hacker, the film has now been launched in South Korea as Twenty Hacker. Per Newsen, the movie marks the star’s cinematic debut.
Also showing in the film is Cho Hyun-young, a former member of the lady group Rainbow. Cho has turned her hand to performing in current years because the dissolution of the chart-topping group.
And one other lady group star-turned-actress performs Kwon’s romantic curiosity – Im Na-young, a former member of the pop acts I.O.I and Pristin. Im carried out one of many songs featured on the movie’s soundtrack.
As if that’s not sufficient, one other boyband member, Lee Su-woong of Boys’ Republic additionally seems in the brand new movie.
Twenty Hacker tells the story of how Kwon’s character, Jae-min, sees his father pushed to suicide after hackers use ransomware to assault his firm’s servers. Jae-min resolves to take his revenge, and throws his vitality into changing into a pc boffin, growing extraordinary “white” hacking expertise.
His skills catch the attention of Cho’s character, who recruits him to work for her clandestine gang of benevolent hackers.
Meanwhile, a small, rival cabal of younger and elite however ill-intentioned hackers determined to reap havoc on the nation’s largest crypto trade. They succeed in breaking via the tight defenses of the trade’s safety system and ship the trade’s many consumers ominous textual content messages concerning the imminent withdrawal of the tokens in their wallets.
Kwon’s character, together with the remainder of Cho’s gang, is pressured right into a race towards time to cease the hackers from making off with the trade customers’ funds.
In an extra crypto bent, Im performs one in all Jae-min’s childhood pals – and turns to him for assist when her father turns into the sufferer of a doubtlessly crippling crypto-themed rip-off.
If all this cryptoasset-flavored South Korean display screen enjoyable leaves you wanting extra – you’re in luck. Armed with an eye-watering USD 540m finances, manufacturing is ongoing on Pumping Time, which can characteristic not solely A-listing stars from South Korea, but in addition Hollywood stars. Already shaping as much as be the crypto world’s reply to Game of Thrones, the soon-to-be-released collection is slated to run for 10 seasons.
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