Korea’s Finecut Picks Up ‘Guardians Of The Video Game’ Forward Of TIFF

Korean gross sales agent Finecut has picked up worldwide rights to retro gaming 3D animated characteristic Guardians Of The Video Game forward of the inaugural TIFF Market. 

Based on the Naver Webtoon of the identical title, the movie is directed by main Korean animation director Uhm Young-sik, whose credit embody Running Man: Revengers; the animation phase of Yumi’s Cells Season 1; and Red Shoes And The Seven Dwarfs, which he co-directed with Moo-Hyun Jang and Hong Sung-ho, and which Finecut offered to 120 territories. 

Created by Gasfard, the Naver Webtoon Guardians Of The Video Game has a reader score of 9.98 and 345 million views. The webtoon has additionally been tailored right into a cellular sport launched on Google Play. 

The movie, produced by Locus Animation, follows an exiled guardian of the gaming world falling from cutting-edge 3D video games right into a forgotten pixel RPG, who should secretly information an harmless hero to the ending, and uncover the conspiracy out to destroy him and the sport itself.

Animation within the movie relies on a particular idea that blends retro RPG video games with cutting-edge 3D video games. The movie is at the moment in post-production, slated for launch within the fourth quarter of 2026, with first footage to be revealed by Finecut at TIFF: The Market. 

Locus Animation additionally produced Red Shoes And The Seven Dwarfs and Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning, which has a sequel in manufacturing. The studio can be creating animations based mostly on in style webtoons together with Barkhan and Denma. 

Finecut can be promoting 3D animation Long Long Night, which can have it world premiere within the Centrepiece part of this yr’s Toronto International Film Festival; and Hong Sangsoo’s Nowhere To Lay My Eyes, which gained the Pardo Awards for Best Direction and Best Performance, together with the Ecumenical Jury Prize, at this yr’s Locarno Film Festival.