Kim Nam-gil's 'Trigger' will be released.
'Trigger' is a gun action disaster thriller about two men with guns for their own reasons amid the delivery of illegal guns of unknown origin and incessant gun incidents in South Korea. A chaotic world where safety devices are removed, events that stimulate triggers in people's minds and dynamic gun action provide thrilling tension.
Kim Nam-gil and Kim Young-kwang, who are known as action thriller masters, meet to raise expectations to the fullest. Kim Nam-gil plays the police 'Lee Do' who holds a gun again to protect justice, and Kim Young-kwang plays the mystery assistant 'Moonbaek' who helps Lee Do at the scene of the gun incident. On top of that, the line-up of Park Hoon, Gil Hae-yeon, and Kim Won-hae, which believes in raising the reality of the drama, further stimulates expectations for completeness. Above all, director Kwon Oh-seung, who attracted attention at the Fantasia International Film Festival with the film 'Midnight', is in charge of directing and writing, raising expectations for the birth of a different genre.
In the meantime, intense teaser posters and teaser trailers released amplify curiosity. Lee Do (Kim Nam-gil) and Moon Baek (Kim Young-kwang) faced with a box containing a gun of unknown origin. The phrase 'A gun has been delivered to South Korea as a gun-clean country' signifies the beginning of the chaos that will strike them. In particular, the two men's quite different facial expressions make them even more curious about their choice to hold 'gun' for different reasons.
The teaser trailer, which was released together, draws attention with a sense of immersion that you can't take your eyes off for a moment. There is a loud gunshot after the meaningful words "Every person has one trigger in their mind. Dozens of bullets and guns are found everywhere, starting with this signal. What's interesting is that unidentified firearms are being shipped to various places by courier. As if setting fire to a world where conflict is also money, illegal guns spread, and the face of those who hold guns heightens the sense of crisis. Amid the unexpected chaos in South Korea, a gun-clean country, Ido begins to chase the truth of the incident. Here "What would happen to Korea if everyone had a gun? Aren't you curious?The question in the question of " pulls the loop of tension. Director Kwon Oh-seung introduced 'Trigger' as 'A story in which things that anyone could have imagined at least once become a reality' and 'A work in which guns appear from a different perspective from the way guns are handled in existing Korean movies and dramas, and guns act at the center of the story' raised expectations.
The Netflix series 'Trigger' will be released worldwide on Netflix on July 25.
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