[HanCinema's News] "Narco-Saints" Confirmed for Six Episode Netflix Run
By William Schwartz | Published on
At a recent press conference, cast and crew for the upcoming Netflix drama "Narco-Saints" confirmed that the drug crime thriller would premiere will have a six episode run. The star-studded drama features Ha Jung-woo, Hwang Jung-min, and Park Hae-soo among many more in major roles. Purportedly, the cast also underwent ten months of intense filming in order to bring the South American spy story to life.
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Yoon Jong-bin is the director of the project. He's known for the crime film "Nameless Gangster" from 2012 as well as spy films such as "The Berlin File" from 2013 and "The Spy Gone North" from 2018. Yoon Jong-bin claimed that much of the difficulties involved in making "Narco-Saints" stemmed from travel problems caused by COVID-19. Nevertheless, Yoon Jong-bin promised that the story was so good that a person would want to finish it all in one sitting.
"Narco-Saints" is based on a real-life incident wherein a Korean national was arrested in Suriname in 2011 on charges of being a drug kingpin. Ha Jung-woo was the person involved who had the idea for the project and pushed hard for it, persuading his collaborators and eventually Netflix to take the story on. However, Ha Jung-woo's character is not the drug lord, but a civilian businessman who gets wrapped up in his schemes.
Hwang Jung-min plays the drug lord, and claimed there were a number of exhilirating scenes because all of the actors carefully prepared their parts for maximum impact. Park Hae-soo, who plays a spy, said that the story transcends genres due to the constant speculation enforced about what the characters really want in any given scene and whether or not they're lying. "Narco-Saints" will premiere on Netflix this coming September 9th.
Written by William Schwartz
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"Narco-Saints" is directed by Yoon Jong-bin, written by Kwon Seong-hwi, Yoon Jong-bin, and features Ha Jung-woo, Hwang Jung-min, Park Hae-soo, Jo Woo-jin, Yoo Yeon-seok, Choo Ja-hyun. Broadcasting information in Korea: 2022/09/09~Upcoming, Fri on Netflix.
William Schwartz
Staff writer. Has been writing articles for HanCinema since 2012, having lived in South Korea from 2011 to 2021. He is currently located in the Portland metropolitan area. William Schwartz can be contacted via william@hancinema.net, and is open to requests for content in future articles.