At the Emmy Awards awards held on the 4th (local time), Squid Game attracted attention with Actor Yumi winning the Best Guest (Invitation) Women Actor Award (BEST DRAMA GUEST ACTRESS) for the first time as an Asian national Actor. At the awards ceremony, <Squid Game> won the technical awards such as visual effect, stunt performance, and production design award.
In this regard, the local awards ceremony prediction site ranked Lee Jung-jae as the top candidate for Best Actor, over Brian Cox of <Second Session>. Other candidates include Bob Odenkirk of Better Call Saul, Adam Scott of Severance: Disconnect, and Jason Bateman of Ozark.
Lee Jung-jae has won the Best Actor Award at the United States of America TV drama awards ceremony, including the United States of America Actors Guild Award (SAG) and the Critics Choice Awards. Meanwhile, a welcome and surprising news about Lee Jung-jae was delivered at the United States of America on the morning of the 8th (local time). It was news of the new "Star Wars" series casting.
"According to the news, Lee Jung-jae was cast in the male lead of Disney Plus's new Star Wars series The Acolyte (Shijong, ) produced by Lucas Moura Film. Amanda Stenberg is set to star in another, and Jodie Turner - Smith recently also joined the lead role of "Actor."
"The news of Lee Jung-jae casting is a victory for Lucas Moura Film and Headland," said Deadline. "We should consider that all Hollywood studios and video platforms are trying to work with Lee Jung-jae, who became a world star with Squid Game." It is a big part of the popularity within Hollywood.
"The Squid Game not only made Lee Jung-jae a World star, but also made Lee Jung-jae sweep the main awards awards awards," Lee Jung-jae said. "Now Lee Jung-jae is expected to have a chance to write a new history of Emmy Awards."
Meanwhile, the new "Star Wars" series "Ecolight", starring Lee Jung-jae, is an action mystery thriller genre based on "Star Wars: Episode 1 - Invisible Risk" about 100 years ago.
Disney Plus announced the production of the project in December 2020. Lucas Moura Film, the producer, is maintaining thorough security as to what character Lee Jung-jae will take on. Shortly after the <Deadline> report, major foreign media also reported Lee Jung-jae's casting news.
Lee Jung-jae's new Star Wars series casting is much more surprising news than Ma Dong-seok's Eternals or Park Seo-joon's Marvel series. The Star Wars series is a series loved by former Worlds for nearly 40 years since the release of the first film directed by George Lucas Moura in 1977.
In addition, it is the most United States of America series and the most beloved series of United States of America, which made the founding myth of United States of America into a space opera. Korea Actor, Lee Jung-jae, starred in the new series of Star Wars. It seems to be the news that takes the peak of K - Culture, K - content syndrome that exemplifies World. It is a big event that makes the journey of <Squid Game> and Lee Jung-jae's move at the same time.
"Netflix said that Squid Game was the most popular number of households in the world
In the first 28 days, 142 million households watched Squid Game, the first time they had ever seen 100 million households.
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"The squid game caused a global syndrome and wrote almost all the records related to OTT video contents," said KISA. "The squid game has a strong impact on social aspects such as the discourse and Lay culture as well as the box office indicators such as viewing furniture and time. Several Korean contents that have been released since then have been popular, and global OTT companies are investing in Korean Wave content. "
As such, Netflix <Squid Game> is leading the trend of K-contents that cause syndrome overseas. This tendency does not stop only in Actors' entry into Hollywood.
For example, Park Chan-wook's HBO 'Mid' <Symbol>, which was recently selected as the Korea entry for the 95th Academy Awards International Feature Films next year, has been featured by Iron Man David Beckham Downey Jr.
The face of Mickey 7, one of director Bong Joon-ho's next projects, is also gorgeous. Plan B, the producer of Brat Feed, co-produces and Warner Brothers distributes. David Beckham Patternson of The Batman is the lead Actor of famous Hollywood Actors such as Tilda Swinton, Mark Perfalo, Tony Collett and Naomi Aki.
Lee Jung-jae's move is also dazzling. The film, which has recently surpassed 4 million, is attracting attention with its invitation to famous film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada in October and the International Film Festival in Sigus, Spain. In particular, the Toronto International Film Festival is the same as Oscar Lay's signal that Parasites stepped on. Hunt will be released throughout the United States in December, when United States of America distributor Magnolia Pictures will be in charge of distribution.
The global OTT series <Lay>, which is the spin-off of <Save from evil>, which ranked second in the box office in Korea in 2020, is also noteworthy. At the end of last month, Hive Mediacorp, a producer of "Save from evil," said that it will co-produce the story of "Lay" in "Save from evil" as a global OTT series. Lee Jung-jae's title roll is expected to start full-scale production after 2023 pre-production.
As such, Hollywood's desire to work is expected to peak with the appearance of the Star Wars series, which is an Actor and director Lee Jung-jae, who is not sorry for the expression "I am anxious".
On the 8th, when he was ahead of the Chuseok holiday, his film debut, Young Man, announced the reopening of digital restoration in 28 years. Lee Jung-jae, who has been living as a star Actor of Korea for more than 30 years from the drama <Sandwatch>, is expected to be a pleasant Chuseok gift for both Lee Jung-jae's fans and domestic audiences.