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When sony animation pictures announced before KPOP HAZARDS Again in 2021, director, writer, writer and longime k-pop maggie kang (The Movie Lego ninjago) It considered the project as a love letter to the first times of the gender has grown up with a vibrating celebration of Korean culture. Teaming up with co-director Chris Appelhans (Wish Dragon)Kang established for crafting a film that joined the bordary shows of the magical action of action scheduled on an adventure premium in netflix on 1 gheel.
KPOP HAZARDS follow Huntrix, a growing group away from the Arden’s arms with their human life that has in human command under the Gwi-but (played by Squid game‘s lee bynung-hun). To prevent impact girls in the bright light of their music, it contest the only floor that could threaten the divale girlfriend: a living room repair.
Before movie release, Io9 spoke with the applicant and evidence of the K-pop expectations and hopes and hopes of Muthmakers’s friendly hopes in the animation industry.
Isaiah Colbert, Io9: What fired the idea of the world’s melting of K-pop ID? Hunting Demon? Was there a moment or inspiration of defined that led to this unique merging of music and absoring action?
Maggie Kang: It was first conceived as an idea of demonstrat faithm that was a group of really fantastic women who bought the Korean demonology – a movie that has been established in Korena Modern-Day. The K-pop of everything was kind of the last thing that must be added because Demony hunt is usually in the dark trips. Not in front of people. I just wanted girls to make a public image and k parents like a fresh thing to set the film in. It made it quite show and gave them that shows and scale.
Track 01: “How is it done.” Performed by hunrix!
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Io9: obviously with this title KPOP HAZARDS Set a high expectations for the two electrificant actions and dynamic dancing sequences. KPOP HAZARDS The nature of course brings a lot of pressure, especially for K-pop ansia fans. How does the team sail that challenge and ensure the film be provided by the two fronts?
Kang: Was hard. It’s a very loyal, dedicated fanbase looking forward to a lot in every aspect. Whether it is design, lighting, animation, we have made sure I would look today that see in K-pop today. Dance’s practice video we see are so good already. It’s been like “how do you take what you are doing so big that do as real men (and) bring in animation and lift that?” Even with some K-Drama lighting and music music is so beautiful. It was a challenge to bring it in the median of animation and be like, “Ok, they did all this awesome. How are we doing a more?” It was a lot of first figure how they are currently doing and how can we take a nut because we’re cheerful.
Chris Appelhans: I guess the maggies really temple did you say that all love k pop and if we try to make the breastfeeding that is the best, authentic type. And, if we are lucky, other people who love the k-pop will love you too. But that’s all I could contract and that was really helpful because I could learn how you would always like to get his game to bring this level to the material. “I feel like that’s what you say, a love letter from the mean we really know. We know this special things you can’t do, too.
Kang: Watched as a fan of ourselves and wanting to push the medium, (and) be our loudest critics.
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Io9: What was the most enthusiastic momentous moment KPOP HAZARDSwhere did you get an Eureka moment in production when you really felt that was carried something single and special to life?
APPELHANS: In stages. Different scenes worn a different part of the promise. I am remembering to Maggie that make some funny reference for one of the girls existed in our characters exactly. “What do you live. Some of our Korean Animents have been doing some we have to ask, have taken it and run with her, and we get the butterflies. As, “check, oh my gosh. We can do this. “We have kept to check the boxes that were part of all this ambitious soup.
Kang: Similar to me, too. Finding the culture of eyes and mouthwash on a korean face, we want the forms of very Korean mouth and speaking, if you are talking in the English language. One of the solutions we have found-one of our wonderful animators (Seung Hee Lee) -FIGed to round the corners of the mouth was really useful in them. Those threads of figure figure of certain languages for the design and style truly cracked those problems.
APPELHANS: Whenever we heard the truth we finish the exempt you did there hard up or when we truly a song and what optimal for the pop that is actually a bop.
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IO9: Talk about pop songs, the film in also personnel from the first day’s talented members. How did you get in collaboration with k-pop artists to bring the musical elements of KPOP HAZARDS Life? What was the process of ensure that sounds is not only energized the film but also fulfilled their emotial heart?
Kang: It was really important for the whole movie to live in that k-pop space. And collaboration with a real-pop artist I felt finally legit the project in K-pop world. Working with black labels and all these poppant writers pop that write for bts, twice, and lately collaboration with twice. Ian Eisendrat, which is our music truerative emlemery veramentive this album, Legittent K-pop party and create a pop k-pop match.
IO9: rEcendly, animated movies as Turning red and it Ultraman: Rising They showed the power of animation as a medium of story and a bridge in loved ones, as K-pop and Tokusatsu. These movies do not only celebrate vibrant animation and life will pray to pre-existing fandomines but also agan center and allow characters in authentic narrat. What was the most important thing in balancing K-Pop with the meaning of the Asian led stories say as asian characters?
Kang: A way of responding that is this in cheers, we have said a lot of stories about inanimate objects (and) other different animals. And yet to tell stories that are special cultivates for different cultural money that can be very universal. It’s really promising about this we see more movies and animation that if a cultural surveles. It is really important to try to function as soon as possible in cheerfulness because, mainly is always regarded as a medium for more than one smaller audience. We have all of these twinkle twinkle movies that show them that and you feel that we are not really that things are still in cheers. I think that’s something we really need to give more diversities at this animation station.
APPELHANS: What I’ve seen in my 25 years ago is how much the handsomy and the same day beliefs are and talent, and that means everything. Because when Maggie is presenting with an original idea, there are Korean artists and talented in each department, and they don’t have to do at home. Its his live experience that they bring, their influence, their favorite things that spreads as artists. That allows you to make more interesting, the original movies, more than it could have been as possible 25 years ago. It’s a kind of happiness under the hood, but it’s really promising and exciting.
Io9: What do you expect the audiences and your creative compounds are in experiencing animation KPOP HAZARDS Wishing you share this universal story with the world?
Kang: There is nothing like the movies that shows, what you are talking about, which hecks herself in, no matter if you are a jamming, everyone feels human use as human beings. Tell stories with chores that emote in korean manner and they speak audience and the audiences and the Heads are always humans and what you like to love and acceptance
KPOP HAZARDS Streams on Netflix starting on June 20.
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