Director Baek Jong-yeol teamed up with actor Koo Kyo-hwan to adapt the popular webtoon “Reawakened Man” into the action film “Reawaken Man: The Red.” The director said he focused on reshaping the original comic’s premise into a fast-paced action film about an unemployed youth who gains the ability to revive after death. “The original webtoon has a very famous premise about an ordinary person acquiring a completely extraordinary power,” Baek, a former commercial and music video director who previously directed “The Beauty Inside” (2015) and Netflix’s “Believer 2” (2023), said Wednesday. “My main focus was figuring out how to effectively reconstruct this narrative within the short runtime of a film medium.” “Reawaken Man: The Red” follows Seok-hwan (Koo), an unemployed young man. After dying, he realizes he possesses a supernatural ability to revive 72 hours after death, which makes him the target of a mysterious group. Koo continues his impressive box-office streak following his lead role in director Yeon Sang-ho’s “Colony,” which hit Korean theaters in May and drew over 5.9 million movieg
