S. Korea’s 2024 martial law crisis being adapted for big screen
The Straits Times
Production company sets cast for political drama based on former President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed insurrection. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL – A film tentatively titled Martial Law 12.3, which would be the first narrative feature based on former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law on Dec 3, 2024, has locked in its cast and will begin shooting in the first half of 2026, production company IP Box Media 1 said on Feb 25.
Written and directed by award-winning screenwriter Park Kyung-soo (The Chaser, 2012; Punch, 2014 to 2015), the movie carries the subtitle PM 10:24, a nod to the time Yoon appeared in a televised address to declare martial law. It pieces together the behind-the-scenes manoeuvring that led to the decree.
Actor Gong Hyung-jin, whose last screen credit was 2022’s Hidden, plays the lead role as a former prosecutor general-turned-president who reaches for emergency powers. The character is a thinly veiled stand-in for Yoon, himself a career prosecutor who won the presidency in 2022.
Lee Ga-ryeong and Lee Sang-hoon round out the principal cast.
On the night of Dec 3, 2024, Yoon declared martial law in a late-night televised address, accusing the opposition of being “anti-state forces” aligned with North Korea.
Troops were sent to the National Assembly and National Election Commission, which Yoon alleged had overseen fraudulent elections.
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