Lee Byung-hun (“Squid Game”, I Saw the Devil) might be tempted by violence after getting the axe in the new teaser for Park Chan-Wook’s pitch-black thriller No Other Choice. Neon will release the film in theaters this fall after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. No Other Choice is an adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s […]
Lee Byung-hun (“Squid Game”, I Saw the Devil) might be tempted by violence after getting the axe in the new teaser for Park Chan-Wook’s pitch-black thriller No Other Choice.
Neon will release the film in theaters this fall after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
No Other Choice is an adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s mystery thriller The Ax and follows “a man who is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he worked tirelessly for many years. He grows increasingly desperate in his hunt for new work, eventually coming to a life-altering decision.”
The novel’s synopsis might give a clearer idea of the madness ahead: “Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search — with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild-mannered middle manager to ruthless murderer, he discovers skills he never knew he had — and that come to him far too easily.”
Son Ye-jin (“Crash Landing on You”), Park Hee-soon (“Squid Game”),
