Hyeon Bin and Tang Wei

South Korean actor Hyeon Bin and Chinese screen beauty Tang Wei-wei are set to appear in “Manchu” (working title), which will go into production at the end of the month in the United States, Boram Entertainment and M&FC announced Friday.

The “My Name is Kim Sam-soon” star and Song Hye Kyo’s boyfriend – Hyeon Bin will play the role of a man on the run who falls in love with a woman who is on special leave from prison, to be played by Tang, who is best-known as the heroine of Ang Lee’s epic romance “Lust, Caution”.

The Korea-U.S. joint project ― Korea’s Boram Entertainment and M&FC and the Unites States’ North by Northwest ― is a remake of the 1966 masterpiece “Full Autumn” (Manchu) by Lee Man-hee. Kim Tae-yong, the award-winning director of “Family Ties” (”The Birth of a Family”) will help the project.

The Korean movie will be “a modern interpretation” of the classic movie and will be set in the United States, said the producers in a statement. It is slated for theatrical release next year.

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