Korean gross sales agent Finecut has picked up worldwide rights to retro gaming 3D animated characteristic Guardians Of The Video Sport forward of the inaugural TIFF Market.
Primarily based on the Naver Webtoon of the identical identify, the movie is directed by main Korean animation director Uhm Young-sik, whose credit embody Operating Man: Revengers; the animation phase of Yumi’s Cells Season 1; and Pink Footwear And The Seven Dwarfs, which he co-directed with Moo-Hyun Jang and Hong Sung-ho, and which Finecut bought to 120 territories.
Created by Gasfard, the Naver Webtoon Guardians Of The Video Sport has a reader score of 9.98 and 345 million views. The webtoon has additionally been tailored right into a cellular sport launched on Google Play.
The movie, produced by Locus Animation, follows an exiled guardian of the gaming world falling from cutting-edge 3D video games right into a forgotten pixel RPG, who should secretly information an harmless hero to the ending, and uncover the conspiracy out to destroy him and the sport itself.
Animation within the movie relies on a particular idea that blends retro RPG video games with cutting-edge 3D video games. The movie is presently in post-production, slated for launch within the fourth quarter of 2026, with first footage to be revealed by Finecut at TIFF: The Market.
Locus Animation additionally produced Pink Footwear And The Seven Dwarfs and Exorcism Chronicles: The Starting, which has a sequel in manufacturing. The studio can also be creating animations primarily based on well-liked webtoons together with Barkhan and Denma.
Finecut can also be promoting 3D animation Lengthy Lengthy Night time, which may have it world premiere within the Centrepiece part of this 12 months’s Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition; and Hong Sangsoo’s Nowhere To Lay My Eyes, which received the Pardo Awards for Finest Course and Finest Efficiency, together with the Ecumenical Jury Prize, at this 12 months’s Locarno Movie Competition.