Jinyoung of GOT7 to star in psychological thriller 'Christmas Carol'

Actor-singer Park Jin-young / Courtesy of BH Entertainment

By Kwak Yeon-soo

Actor and singer Park Jin-young, better known as Jinyoung of K-pop boy band GOT7, will play the lead role in the psychological thriller “Christmas Carol” (working title), which is scheduled to begin filming early next year.

An adaptation of writer Joo Won-kyu's book, the upcoming film tells the story of Joo Il-woo, who enters a juvenile detention facility to get revenge for the death of his twin brother, Wol-woo.

Park will play the dual role of the twin brothers, a first for him. “I'm both excited and anxious ahead of filming because I have to lead each scene by myself. Since it's a book-to-movie adaptation, I will do my best to portray the character as described in the original work,” he said.

The screen play for “Christmas Carol” will be written by Kim Sung-soo, the director behind the first season of OCN's “Save Me,” and the films “Running Wild” (2006) and “Genome Hazard” (2014).

“This film is a coming-of-age revenge tale of a teenager who tries to escape from the ever-encroaching adult world,” the writer-director said.

Park is currently starring in tvN's “Yumi's Cell,” a TV adaptation of a popular web cartoon of the same name. In the series, he plays the role of Yoo Ba-bi, a coworker of the titular Yu-mi (Kim Go-eun) at a food company.