SM Leisure founder Lee Soo-man to star in personal documentary on Prime Video

A function documentary in regards to the lifetime of Lee Soo-man, the founding father of Okay-pop company SM Leisure is within the works at Amazon Prime Video.

The movie can be produced by manufacturing firm This Machine and filmmaker Ting Poo, who’s behind the 2021 Prime Video documentary Val about actor Val Kilmer, Deadline studies.

The documentary, reportedly entitled Lee Soo-Man: The King of Okay-Pop, can be “chronicling the enthralling lifetime of a daring visionary whose work put his nation on the map, sparked a world motion, and continues to outline an period,” in accordance with a press launch cited by Deadline.

The information comes amid studies that Lee’s function as chief producer at SM Leisure, an organization that he based in 1995, is coming to an finish on the finish of the yr. The company is behind a few of South Korea’s greatest Okay-Pop acts like SUPER JUNIOR, Women’ Technology, SHINee, EXO, Pink Velvet, KANGTA, BoA, TVXQ!, NCT and aespa.

SM Leisure advised shareholders in September that “with the 25-year-old manufacturing system Lee established working properly, he’s assured that good junior producers will handle with out a lot problem. He added it is usually cheap to humbly settle for minority shareholders’ opinions to step down (as chief producer),” The Korea Instances reported on the time.

SM Leisure reduce ties with Like Planning, a non-public firm wholly owned by Lee, in October and his destiny as chief producer of the corporate he based is about to be decided on the subsequent normal assembly in March 2023.

Final month, South Korean recreation writer Com2uS purchased a 4.2% stake in SM Leisure, a transfer that some critics say would assist Lee on the subsequent assembly.

Regardless of reported tensions about Lee’s present-day affect at SM Leisure, the producers of his documentary model him as “a futurist and visionary on the size of Steve Jobs,” in accordance with Deadline.

“He’s a world-builder and a technologist whose authentic creation has taken over international leisure, one Okay-Pop band at a time,” in accordance with the reported launch.

“I couldn’t be extra excited to work with the unbelievable groups at Prime Video and This Machine to inform the story of one of the crucial influential creators of our time.”

Ting Poo, Filmmaker

Ting Poo described Lee as “a modern-day Willy Wonka whose story will resonate with dreamers in all places.”

“I couldn’t be extra excited to work with the unbelievable groups at Prime Video and This Machine to inform the story of one of the crucial influential creators of our time,” Poo reportedly stated.

The documentary can be produced by Ting Poo, Jenny Turner, This Machine’s R.J. Cutler, Jane Cha Cutler, Elise Pearlstein, and Trevor Smith, and Teddy Zee.

This Machine, a unit of Sony Footage Tv, is behind the Billie Eilish documentary known as Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, launched on Apple TV+ in 2021, and The September Difficulty, launched 2009, which featured Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour.

The producers have but to announce the goal launch date for the Lee Soo-man documentary, however as soon as completed, the documentary is anticipated to succeed in audiences by means of Prime Video throughout 240 international locations and areas, Deadline says.

Talking in regards to the documentary, Brianna Oh, Head of Documentary Options at Amazon Studios, reportedly stated: “We’re thrilled to reunite with Ting Poo to seize Lee Soo Man’s dynamic profession and simple affect on Okay-Pop and the music trade as an entire.”

“We’re assured this extremely proficient filmmaking workforce will ship an emotional and compelling documentary that our Prime Video clients around the globe will fall in love with.”

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