Guillermo Del Toro-Produced Psychological Thriller Is Getting A Korean Remake With First Look

A brand new South Korean remake of a Guillermo Del Toro-produced psychological thriller is formally launching on the American Movie Market.

Per Display screen Day by day, Ok-Film Leisure has acquired the worldwide gross sales rights of The Eyes, a South Korean remake of the 2010 Spanish movie Julia’s Eyes (Los Ojos de Julia), and plans to introduce the title to patrons at AFM later this month. The movie stars award-winning actress Shin Min-a, is directed by Yeom Ji-ho and co-produced by Studio Dream Seize and Time Heist.

The Eyes will comply with a famend photographer (Shin), devastated by the sudden lack of her twin sister. As she searches for the reality, she begins to lose her sight and senses a daunting presence round her. Take a look at the primary look beneath:

Shin Min-a is thought for the latest Netflix crime drama Karma, and hit TV sequence like Our Blues, Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, in addition to Kim Jee-woon’s movie, A Bittersweet Life. The forged of The Eyes additionally options Kim Nam-hee of Netflix fantasy Ok-drama Candy Dwelling.

The unique Julia’s Eyes was directed by Guillem Morales and produced by Guillermo del Toro, and initially premiered at TIFF in 2010 earlier than opening the Sitges competition that very same yr. The movie was extensively praised for its atmospheric stress and sluggish unraveling of the reality, with Del Toro’s involvement enhancing its status amongst horror aficionados.

The movie’s core theme of the protagonist slowly dropping her sight whereas coping with grief and investigating her sister’s demise performs into visceral fears and existential dread fairly than violent gore and soar scares.

Ok-Film’s transfer to take up the remake forward of AFM displays the deeper development of Korean cinema changing into a hotspot for worldwide diversifications. Lately, Korean filmmakers have constructed a popularity for remodeling acquainted movies into profitable cross-cultural remakes akin to Cash Heist: Korea — Joint Financial Space, which remade Netflix’s Spanish hit sequence.

Equally, Korean filmmakers have additionally impressed Western initiatives, like The Good Physician, primarily based on a Ok-drama, and HBO’s upcoming Parasite TV present.

Nonetheless, The Eyes shouldn’t be the one remake of Julia’s Eyes. A Hindi remake titled Blurr was launched in 2022. Distribution for The Eyes will probably be dealt with by BY4M Studio, with the movie being slated for a mid-2026 home launch.

Worldwide patrons and style followers on the AFM will now be watching if The Eyes was in a position to retain the unique movie’s slow-burn stress whereas adapting it to 2026 sensibilities and Korean manufacturing design. If profitable, the movie may assist set up a brand new template for a way Korean thrillers reimagine European style IPs.