Park Seo Joon is reportedly set to star in director Lee Joon Ik's new film, sending K-movie fans into a frenzy.
According to multiple outlets on the 2nd, Park Seo Joon will appear in I Am a Firefly (working title).
I Am a Firefly unfolds against the backdrop of the 1974 dictatorship era, with its core rooted in the 1950 National Guidance League massacre. The story tackles the government-led roundup and mass execution of League members who were labeled "dangerous" without due process.
Reports say Park Seo Joon plays Detective Seol Jun Kyung, who chases the truth 24 years later and ultimately comes face to face with the brutal machinery of state violence surrounding him.
In the film, he serves as a Security Bureau detective whose father had been flagged as a person under surveillance. While he goes along with the organization's logic for the sake of survival and upward mobility, he collides with a long-buried truth. Previously confirmed cast member Park Hae Il plays another pivotal character, "Grandpa Button" Kim Man Seop — a man who hides his memories but eventually becomes the key figure who hints at the secret of Hwayong Village.
Director Lee Joon Ik, known for deeply portraying human lives and convictions across eras through works like The King and the Clown, Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet, Anarchist from Colony, and The Book of Fish, is set to once again depict state violence and historical wounds through his singular lens.
Fans reacted, saying things like "This pairing is perfect" and "I've been waiting for Park Seo Joon's next film."
Meanwhile, filming is reportedly aiming to start in October.