Park Hae-soo and Lee Hee-joon puzzle over The Scarecrow
by tccolb
The dreadful shadow of ENA’s The Scarecrow is looming over Park Hae-soo (The Price of Confession) in the first video teaser, confounding our hero – alongside Lee Hee-joon (Nine Puzzles) and Kwak Sun-young (Mary Kills People) – with the serial killer mystery at hand.
It is indeed a troubling case that began back in 1988 and continues to haunt detective Kang Tae-joo (Park Hae-soo) for thirty(!) long years until our story’s present day in 2019. The trailer’s sequence is sparse with the clues: a series of murders, all killed using the same method, and a scared witness’ mention that a scarecrow was nearby. But with scarecrows being a common sight in the town of Kangseong’s country fields, the perceptive Tae-joo deduces that the scarecrow is this cursed killer’s disguise.
This makes me anxious about reporter Seo Ji-won (Kwak Sun-young) being out in the dark while investigating, alone. Adding to the tension, Tae-joo is forced to cooperate with ambitious prosecutor Cha Shi-young (Lee Hee-joon) in order to catch the culprit. And on top of their differing views, their contentious relationship is built on bad history from their high school days.
Also starring Song Geon-hee (Karma), Seo Ji-hye (Family by Choice), and Jung Moon-sung (Resident Playbook) among other talents, the crime-suspense is loosely based on the real-life Hwaseong murders that similarly took place over 1986-1991 and was finally formally resolved in 2020. The infamous case has been re-imagined in multiple narrative forms and the promos so far are giving some vibes of Bong Joon-ho’s 2003 film Memories of Murder.
Slated to premiere on April 20 next month, production for ENA’s upcoming The Scarecrow has PD Park Joon-woo (Mary Kills People, Crash) directing and working again with writer Lee Ji-hyun after Taxi Driver 1.
Via Newsen
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