An “Offerings” He Can’t Refuse: Anthony Shim Sets Up Next Project for 2024 Shoot

A tidbit of news that slipped under our radar late last week, Variety reports that Canadian Korean filmmaker Anthony Shim (who is coming off a solid 2022 with his sophomore feature Riceboy Sleeps) is attached to adapt and direct Offerings for the big screen. Production would be set for the fall of 2024 – so we’d be looking at a possible 2025 drop if everything falls into place. Anonymous Content’s David Levine and Chadwick Prichard (set to produce Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Jupiter) plus Anthology Studios’ Jay Choi and Soon Ho Song (Cobweb) will produce the acclaimed Korean novel written by Michael Kim (aka Kim Byung Ju). Riceboy Sleeps won the TIFF Platform prize and travelled well on the film festival circuit. Production on this new project will take place in Seoul and the United States.

This tells the story of Dae, a young Korean American investment banker who finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default during the 1990s Asian Financial Crisis. As he and his fellow bankers work with Korean officials to execute a sovereign bond offering, his own father is living on borrowed time in the U.S. When Dae’s closest friend, a scion of one of Korea’s biggest chaebol, asks his help in a business sale which would salvage the conglomerate but also uphold a tradition of corruption, Dae finds himself in personal crisis, and has to face the true cost of prioritizing his personal ambitions over his family’s legacy.