No Other Choice
Would you kill for a job?
Production
Budget
$12 200 000
Revenue
$40 223 568
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Park Chan-wook, Baek Ji-seon, Michèle Ray-Gavras, Alexandre Gavras, Oh Hyeon-am, Miky Lee
Operator
Kim Woo-hyung
Composer
Artist
Ryu Seong-hie
Audition
Editing
Short description
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming took place from August 17, 2024, to January 15, 2025.
- The director's cut of the film has a runtime of 157 minutes.
- In an interview, Park Chan-wook revealed that loud music plays during the scene of the attempted murder of the first victim so that the characters scream, expressing their feelings. According to the director, the scene wouldn't have worked if the actors had delivered their lines calmly.
- When actor Lee Byung-hun read the script, he called director Park Chan-wook and asked if he understood correctly that it was supposed to be a comedy. Park replied that the funnier it was, the better.
- The lead actor, Lee Byung-hun, admitted in an interview that the most challenging scene for him was portraying the attempted murder of the first victim (Lee Sung-min), when his character feels sympathy for him.
- Originally, the film was planned to be English-language, but Park Chan-wook couldn't find investors. In an interview, he admitted that he was glad he ultimately filmed it in Korea and that he wanted to add acknowledgements to all the Hollywood studios that had rejected him to the film's credits.
- The film is dedicated to Costa-Gavras, the director of another adaptation of Donald E. Westlake's novel.
- The film's title translates to 'Nothing to Be Done'.
- Director Park Chan-wook wanted to adapt Westlake's novel for about 20 years.
- At the 69th minute, you can spot a dancer in American football uniform with the number 9 and the name Boucher. This is a reference to Bobby Boucher – a character from the movie 'Billy Madison' played by Adam Sandler.
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Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
