NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Rob Cohen is set to direct the most expensive film in the history of the Korean film industry.
Cohen, the director of adrenaline-jolting movies like "The Fast and the Furious" and "XXX," will make "1950," a film set in the Korean War with a budget of $100 million. CJ E&M Pictures of Korea and Grapevine Entertainment are producing.
It is based on the dispatches of Marguerite Higgins, then the Tokyo bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune. Higgins was initially barred from covering the conflict by the U.S. Army because she was a woman, but Gen. Douglas MacArthur later gave her permission in a significant moment for female journalists.
Production is slated to begin in May of 2012, with a release date the following spring.
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