The devil moved in Director Lee Sang-geun's long career as a movie director trainee, although it was hard..
Aug 08, 2025
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Director Lee Sang-geun met with Sports Chosun at a cafe in Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 8th and said, `I had a long career as a movie director"11 years ago, the devil moved in from a cafe where high school students were studying for a month."' I've finished the draft."
Released on the 13th 'The Devil's Move' is a demonic comedy about the struggles of unemployed Gil-gu, a young man caught up in an unusual part-time job monitoring Seon-ji who wakes up as a demon every dawn, and director Lee Sang-geun of 'Exit' took the megaphone.
Director Lee, who is about to release the movie, said, `I was so excited that I couldn't sleep.' `I was grateful to my team members who worked with me until the end of the second half of the work. After the movie is released, I think they will watch the result (score) and buy me something delicious" expressed his trembling heart.
In the beginning 'The devil moved in' is a work that starts with the title of 'Date of Two Poems'. Director Lee began writing the scenario in early July, 2014. I finished the draft in a month in the space where high school students study. At that time, all the other directors made their debut, and I was the only one who didn't make my debut, so I felt bad, but I wrote hard. 'The devil moved in'Exit' came out earlier than 'Exit' came out of the world, and it wasn't easy because I had to take the risk of being a new director in the production company's foreign countries, but he suggested that it would be good to go to a project to introduce a new director because it was so fresh. After 'Exit', COVID-19 struck suddenly, and while searching through a computer folder about which films should be released after 2020, 'Doucy's Date' caught my eye. But it felt completely different from the scenario I remembered. As soon as I saw it, I knew why the scenario wasn't adopted (laughs). There was a strong feeling of freshness and unrefined rawness that I liked the movie more. I kept the idea as much as I could, but rewrote the scenario from the beginning. Except for the names of the characters, he explained, "I changed the story from the title of the work."
Director Lee has been brilliant since his debut. The movie 'Exit', which was released in 2019, recorded a cumulative audience of 9.42 million, making a box office history. In response, he said "I went through a long period of film director training (laughs). 'Exit' is Yoona's lead debut and my director debut, so each other is better?I did X? X. When I was a private trainee, I wrote a scenario at a cafe by myself. Isn't there a lot of good movie companies in Korea. Among them, I thought the external steel was unrivaled," he said with a smile.
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