Divergent alum Theo James (who is also appearing in the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Monkey”) is set to star in The Hole, an adaptation of Hye-young Pyun’s 2017 Shirley Jackson Award-winning book.
According to Deadline, James will play Owen, a professor living in South Korea who is bedridden after being in a horrible accident that killed his wife. His Korean mother-in-law is nursing him back to health, but in doing so also uncovers a “devastating truth” of her dead daughter’s marriage (and something about Owen himself), which in turn threatens Owen’s recovery.
The film adaptation appears to differ from the book in at least one major way: James’ character in the novel is a Korean cartographer named Oghi, not a white American named Owen. Whether this whitewashing leads to other changes in the story is unclear.
The Hole is directed by Kim Jee-woon (I Saw The Devil) with a script from Christopher Chen. Production is set to start in the first half of 2025 and will be shot in Korea and the U.S.
The project is still in its early days, so no news yet on when we’ll see The Hole at a theater (or television, depending on where its distributed) near you.
