Miracle in Cell No. 7 Set for Indonesian Sequel, Series Adaptation

Miracle in Cell No. 7, an Indonesian remake of the 2013 comedy-drama directed by South Korea’s Lee Hwan-kyung, will get a sequel and an animated sequence adaptation by Indonesia’s Falcon Footage, after the primary movie achieved main field workplace success in 2022, scoring fifth within the nation’s all-time field workplace rankings and promoting 5.8 million film tickets nationwide. 

In a discussion board held Saturday at Busan’s Asia Contents and Movie Market, creators behind the unique and the remake talked in regards to the uncommon collaboration between the 2 main Asian movie firms – Indonesia’s Falcon Footage and South Korea’s Contents Panda. The Korean unique, which garnered near 13 million viewers in theaters, didn’t have a sequel. 

“A remake is an environment friendly means [to ensure] a movie’s success,” says Danny Lee at Contents Panda, a subsidiary of the main Korean distributor NEW. “We already proved in Korea that the story labored.”

Contents Panda has seen success of worldwide remakes with its different movies. Practice to Busan, the blockbuster thriller a couple of household trapped in a prepare throughout a zombie outbreak was remade into Timo Tjahjanto’s The Final Practice to New York final 12 months. The remake rights of Miracle in Cell No. 7 had been additionally bought to Turkey and the Philippines, and the remakes had modest field workplace success in these nations. Miracle in Cell No. 7 can be in manufacturing for a remake by Spain’s Rock and Ruz, starring an award-winning actor Mario Casas from The Invisible Visitor. 

The partnership between Contents Panda and Falcon is following different Korean movies’ travels to Southeast Asia for remakes. CJ Leisure’s Sunny, a 2011 drama a couple of group of feminine buddies who reunite 20 years after highschool commencement, was remade by Indonesia’s Miles Movie. However the principle enchantment of South Korean content material in that area was primarily based on Korean dramas starring celeb actors. 

Miracle in Cell No. 7 follows a mentally disabled father who’s falsely accused of homicide and despatched to jail. The Indonesian adaptation largely follows the unique story with slight variations. 

“We localized the content material by making the prisoners much less darkish,” stated B Naveen, govt producer at Falcon Footage. “We made it a bit funnier [than the original] and the prisoners within the movie had been performed by large comedians in Indonesia.”

Falcon Footage can be bringing the movie into an animation sequence directed by Daryl Wilson.

“It’s very thrilling to see the unique movie coming collectively as a sequel and an animation spinoff,” says Lee. “It’s an ideal instance of collaboration between nice producers.” 

The sequel of Miracle in Cell No. 7 is anticipated to open in Indonesian theaters on Christmas. The animation sequence, which will likely be offered in eight episodes, will likely be out nationwide after the movie’s launch.