SEOUL-BASED studio CJ Entertainment and Aster’s production banner Square Peg are teaming up to produce an English-language remake of the South Korean auteur Jang Joon-hwan’s wildly original sci-fi cult classic “Save the Green Planet!” Jang is returning to direct the remake from a script written by Will Tracy, with Aster and his production partner Lars Knudsen producing alongside CJ’s head of U.S. productions Francis Chung.

With its galloping pace and bizarro originality, “Save the Green Planet!” became a sleeper hit on the international festival circuit upon its release in 2003.

The film was Jang’s feature debut, which he followed with the revenge thriller “Hwayi: A Monster Boy” (2013) and the political thriller “1987: When the Day Comes” (2017). Both films did sizable business at the South Korean box office. The “Save the Green Planet!” remake will be Jang’s first film in English.

(SD-Agencies)