'Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy' set to shake up summer box office with star-studded cast

The highly anticipated fantasy action film "Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy," starring Lee Min-ho, Ahn Hyo-seop, Chae Soo-bin, Nana, Ji Soo, and Shin Seung-ho, is emerging as a dark horse at the summer box office. Distributor Lotte Entertainment confirmed Sunday that the film will hit theaters on July 23. Adapted from a massively popular web novel and webtoon, the movie imagines a world where fiction turns into reality. On the day a decade-long web novel ends, its storyline suddenly becomes real. Only Kim Dok-ja (Ahn Hyo-seop), the sole reader who finished the story, knows what happens next. Teaming up with the novel’s protagonist Yoo Jung-hyuk (Lee Min-ho) and a band of survivors, he fights to navigate a destroyed world. The original web novel amassed over 200 million views, while the webtoon version has surpassed 2 billion views worldwide — making the film adaptation a hot topic from the moment it was announced. The newly released main poster features Kim Dok-ja and Yoo Jung-hyuk staring intensely ahead, hinting at the surreal journey to come. The tagline, “The novel only I know haWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times