Space Sweepers
Short description
In 2092, Earth has become largely uninhabitable, and the UTS corporation is preparing to terraform Mars for a select few. Those left behind scrape by however they can, including the crew of the Victory, a ship that collects discarded debris in orbit. Its members are a former street kid turned pilot, Tae-ho, the captain Jang, the engineer Tiger Park, and a reprogrammed military robot. After recovering a crashed shuttle, they find a young humanoid robot inside and learn that she is sought by UTS and regarded as a weapon of mass destruction, which leads them to attempt a deal that puts them in danger.
Space Sweepers is a 2021 Korean science fiction film directed by Jo Sung-hee, his second feature after A Werewolf Boy in 2012. He wrote the screenplay with Yoon Seung-min and Yoo-kang Seo-ae, and the cast includes Song Joong-ki as Tae-ho, Kim Tae-ri as Captain Jang, Yoo Hae-jin voicing Bubs, Jin Sun-kyu as Tiger Park, Kim Moo-yul as Kang Hyun-woo, and Richard Armitage as UTS chief executive James Sullivan.
Made for a budget of about 21 million dollars, the film was released in February 2021 and runs 136 minutes. On TMDB it holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from roughly 1,180 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The original title of the film can be translated as "Spaceship Victory".
- The first South Korean science fiction film about space.
- The filming period was from July 3 to November 2, 2019.
- A theatrical release in South Korea was originally planned, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the release was postponed, and as a result, the film was sold to Netflix.
- At a press conference regarding the film's release, Kim Tae-ri admitted that her character, Captain Jang, shares no common traits with herself, and she had to "borrow" the character from Hollywood movies.
- Director Cho Sung-hee worked on the project for 10 years.
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