The 2003 South Korean live-action feature film The Classic is slated to become a 26-part animated television series, according to Daily Variety. The show will be produced by Dohwaji Ent. and directed by Yang Jin-cheol, whose feature, Oseam, was a Grand Prix winner at the 2004 Annecy Int’l Festival of Animation in 2004. Working with a budget of $2.6 million, Dohwaji hopes to have the series ready for air on Korean networks in 2007.
More than twelve million viewers in Korea and other regions of Asia have flocked to see the live-action Classic, a story of romance and intrigue centered on an introverted young woman who communicates her love for a boy by having a friend write e-mails to him. The film was the first South Korean feature produced under a revenue-sharing partnership with China. Dohwaji is looking for Chinese investors to help bring the animated series to the screen.
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