“Steel Rain 2: Summit” Theatrical Poster
Director: Yang Woo-Seok
Cast: Jung Woo-Sung, Kwak Do-Won, Yoo Yeon-Seok, Shin Jung-Keun, Kim Wang-Do, Ryu Soo-Young, Angus Macfadyen, John D. Michaels, Yook Hyo-Myung
Running Time: 131 min.
By Paul Bramhall
In 2017 director Yang Woo-seok helmed Steel Rain, an adaptation of his own web comic of the same name that saw Jung Woo-sung and Kwak Do-won thrown together from opposing sides of the Korean peninsula in an attempt to prevent a nuclear war. 3 years later and Woo-seok is back with Steel Rain 2: Summit, a sequel which also features Woo-sung and Do-won, and once more they’re involved in a tale that involves the threat of nuclear war and the measures that must be taken to prevent it. For those who have seen Steel Rain, the elephant in the room will of course be how exactly Woo-sung and Do-won have been brought back together, and the answer comes in the form of them playing completely different characters than they were in the original.
This isn’t the first time for a director to bring back the same cast members from the original for a thematic sequel. Director Kang Woo-seok’s bringing back of Sol Kyung-gu for 2005’s Another Public Enemy, playing a distinctly different character than he did in 2002’s Public Enemy, immediately springs to mind. Here Woo-seok maintains the theme of Steel Rain, but crafts a decidedly different take on the same material. Whereas last time Woo-sung was a North Korean agent and Do-won was the Foreign Affairs Chief for South Korea, here the actors get a chance to switch their geographical allegiances, with Woo-sung playing the President of South Korea, and Do-won a ruthless Continue reading
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