“The apocalyptic world depicted in a novel has turn out to be actuality. And solely I understand how this novel ends!” – Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy, based mostly on the worldwide sensation net novel Omniscient Reader, shall be obtainable for UK audiences on digital obtain subsequent month!
You’ll be able to watch the trailer beneath:
Synopsis:
Kim Dokja, an extraordinary workplace employee in his 20s, appears to be the one reader of an obscure apocalyptic net novel. The day he finishes the ultimate chapter, the story involves life — and its all-powerful protagonist Yu Junghyeok seems earlier than him. Armed with information of the novel’s each twist and switch, Kim should collect allies and rewrite destiny itself if he hopes to outlive… and save the world.
Since its first publication in 2018, the webtoon has gained international fandom, attaining greater than 300 million views. Its distinctive idea of actuality and fantasy worlds being merged and the epic storyline by which Kim Dokja, the only reader of a novel, has to write down a brand new ending with the novel’s primary character, Yu Junghyeok and the companions he meets, has captivated readers all around the world.
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy assembles a stellar solid, led by Ahn Hyo-seop (Okay-Pop Demon Hunters, A Time Referred to as You, Physician Romantic), Lee Min-ho (Pachinko, The Bitter), Shin Seung-ho (Weak Hero: Class 1, D.P.), NANA (Im Jin-ah, Masks Lady), Kwon Eun-seong (Concrete Utopia), and JISOO, actress and lead vocalist in Blackpink (Snowdrop).
Producer Gained Dong-yeon of Realies Footage, which produced mega hits Alongside With The Gods franchise, instantly fell for the story. Gained says in a press launch, “The minute I first learn the unique novel, I wished to make it into a movie… I believed that movie format could be excellent to convey its message with the visible results. And I believed many individuals have to look at this story about residing collectively as a collective expertise.”
Director Kim Byung-woo, whose earlier movies The Terror, Reside and Take Level have been praised for having damaged a brand new floor for Korean cinema, was chosen to helm the movie. Kim praises the novel, saying “its storytelling is energetic and interactive making readers comply with it continually placing themselves in characters’ sneakers. And I believed if we might get the viewers to look at it from characters’ POV, movie format could be excellent.”
For Kim, the principle concern was to “preserve the stability between actuality and fantasy.” He wished to maintain the characters actual, although the movie is a fantasy. Because it was necessary to make the characters really feel authentically human on this style, the essential level was how you can optimise the unique novel’s settings. For instance, utilising Constellations (celestial beings who assist ‘upskill’ every human character), Kim thought-about, “what characters could be like if they’re disadvantaged of their abilities or assist of Constellations.”
He additionally wished to ship the unique work’s message proper to the viewers. He provides, “The title suggests it’s solely about ‘Dokja’, however curiously sufficient, Dokja isn’t alone within the movie. It’s a story about assembly your colleagues and dealing along with them in a modified world. It’s a narrative about extraordinary individuals becoming a member of forces to beat the difficulties.”
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy shall be obtainable on UK digital obtain from December fifteenth.
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