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Actor Moon Choi plans screen adaptation of award winning French play

South Korean actor Moon Choi is preparing a screen version of Alexis Michalik's Moliere-winning play Une histoire d'amour.

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South Korean actor Moon Choi is planning a screen adaptation of the French play Une histoire d'amour. Variety and Yahoo both reported that Choi is working to adapt the project, which originally won a Moliere award for playwright Alexis Michalik. [1][3]

Choi, who is also known in Korea as Choi Hee-seo, previously won the Actress of the Year honor at the Busan International Film Festival in 2018 for her role in the independent film Our Body. Variety reported that she also gained recognition for playing Japanese anarchist Kaneko Fumiko in the feature film Anarchist from Colony. [1]

The actor currently stars in the feature drama Bedford Park. According to Wikipedia, the American drama film was written and directed by Stephanie Ahn in her feature directorial debut. The film features Choi alongside cast members Son Suk-ku, Won Mi-kyung, Kim Eung-soo, and Jefferson White. [1][8]

Choi is currently serving as a juror at the Busan International Film Festival while expanding her work between Korean cinema and international projects, according to reports from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and IMDb. [1][4][5]

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In short

  • Moon Choi is developing a screen adaptation of Alexis Michalik's play Une histoire d'amour.
  • Choi won the Actress of the Year award at the Busan International Film Festival in 2018 for Our Body.
  • Choi stars in the 2026 feature film Bedford Park directed by Stephanie Ahn.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]‘Bedford Park’ Star and Busan Juror Moon Choi on Locking Away Her Trophies and Plotting a Screen Version of a Molière-Winning PlayVariety Film, 1h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]Sacha Baron Cohen Confirmed To Star In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Popinjay Cavalier’ West End Stage Play With Dates & On Sale Window AnnouncedDeadline Film Adaptations, 3h ago
  3. [3]‘Bedford Park’ Star and Busan Juror Moon Choi on Locking Away Her Trophies and Plotting a Screen Version of a Molière-Winning PlayYahoo, 1h ago
  4. [4]‘Bedford Park’ Star Moon Choi Charts Her Own Path Between Korea and HollywoodThe Hollywood Reporter, 1d ago
  5. [5]Moon Choi Bridges Worlds: From Korean Cinema to Hollywood Stardom and Busan Festival JuryIMDb, 1d ago

Background

  1. [6]Moon So-ri on Wikipedia
  2. [7]Lock Upp (season 2) on Wikipedia
  3. [8]Bedford Park (film) on Wikipedia

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 8 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

Earlier reports of ours on the same people and subjects.

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