A feature-length documentary about the life of Lee Soo-man, the founder of K-pop agency SM Entertainment, is in production on Amazon Prime Video.
The film will be produced by This Machine, the company behind Val, the 2021 Prime Video documentary about actor Val Kilmer, and filmmaker Tin Phu. deadline report.
Reportedly, Lee Soo Man: King of K-POP, According to a press release quoted by , “Documenting the captivating life of a daring visionary whose work put his country on the map, sparked a global movement and continues to define an era. I’m here.” deadline.
The news comes amid reports that Lee’s role as chief producer of SM Entertainment, the company he founded in 1995, will end at the end of the year. This agency is behind some of Korea’s biggest K-Pop artists like SUPER JUNIOR, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, EXO, Red Velvet, KANGTA, BoA, TVXQ!, NCT, aespa.
In September, SM Entertainment told its shareholders, “We are confident that the production system established by Mr. Lee for 25 years is working well, so we are confident that excellent junior producers will be able to operate without problems. He added that it would be reasonable to humbly accept the opinion and resign (as chief producer). Korea Times reported at the time.
SM Entertainment cut ties with Lee Planning, a private company 100% owned by Lee, in October, and his fate as chief producer of the company he founded will be decided at the next shareholder meeting in March 2023. It is scheduled to be
Last month, South Korean game publisher Com2uS purchased a 4.2% stake in SM Entertainment.
Despite reports of tensions over Lee’s current influence at SM Entertainment, the producers of his documentary have branded him “a futurist and visionary on the level of Steve Jobs.” I’m here. deadline.
According to a reported release, “He was a world-builder, a technologist whose unique creations have taken the entertainment world by storm, one K-pop band at a time.”
“We couldn’t be more excited to work with the amazing team at Prime Video and This Machine to tell the story of one of the most influential creators of our time.”
Tin Phu, film director
Tin Phu described Lee as “a modern-day Willy Wonka whose story will resonate with dreamers around the world.”
“I couldn’t be more excited to work with the amazing team at Prime Video and This Machine to tell the story of one of the most influential creators of our time,” Poo reportedly said. It is
The documentary is produced by Thimphu, Jenny Turner, RJ Cutler of This Machine, Jane Cha Cutler, Elise Pearlstein, Trevor Smith and Teddy Gee.
Sony Pictures Television unit This Machine is producing a documentary about Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish: The World a Little Blurrycoming to Apple TV+ in 2021, and September issuewas released in 2009 and featured Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour.
The producer has yet to announce a target release date for Lee Soo Man’s documentary, but once completed, the documentary will reach viewers through Prime Video in 240 countries and territories. deadline Say.
Speaking about the documentary, Brianna Oh, head of documentary functions at Amazon Studios, was quoted as saying: “
“We are confident that this incredibly talented filmmaking team will deliver compelling and moving documentaries that Prime Video customers around the world will fall in love with.”
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