Park Chan-wook‘s highly anticipated follow up to 2022’s Decision to Leave has been acquired for distribution around the world. Announced this week, No Other Choice will be released in Canada through Elevation Pictures; in the US, Neon re-teams with the auteur; Mubi secures the release for Latin America, the UK, Ireland, Spain, Turkey, India, Australia/New Zealand, and South East Asia; while Cinéart, in partnership with Mubi, will handle the Benelux theatrical release.
The film, based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Ax, is currently in post-production, with an unknown release date as of writing. Park teams up with Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar and Jahye Lee to adapt the novel, and the cast includes, Squid Game‘s Lee Byung-hun, Son Yi-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won, and Yoo Yeon-seok.
Lee leads the film as Man-su, a middle aged man recently laid off from his company after 25 years of employment. In pursuit of gainful employment, Man-su takes the drastic step of systematically killing other candidates for jobs.
No Other Choice is produced by Park and Back Jisun for Moho Film, alongside Michèle Ray Gavras and Alexandre Gavras for KG Productions. Miky Lee of CJ Group serves as executive producer.
