A trailer has landed online for the UK release of the action fantasy Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy, the adaptation of Sing Shong’s best-selling web novel Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint.
Directed by Kim Byung-woo, the film sees the sole reader of an obscure web novel, Kim Dokja (Ahn Hyo-seop), write an angry letter to its author on his disappointment in its conclusion. When the story’s hero Yu Jung-hyeok (Lee Min-ho) appears before him, he realises that the book has come to life and works to change its ending before the world is destroyed.
The cast includes Ahn Hyo-seop, Lee Min-ho, Chae Soo-bin, Shin Seung-ho, Nana, Kwon Eun-seong, and Jisoo; watch the trailer below…
Kim Dokja (Ahn Hyo-seop), an ordinary man in his 20s, is the only reader of an obscure web novel titled “Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse”. Having started reading in his school days, after 10 years of serialization the novel’s conclusion is finally published, and Kim, not liking the ending in which the hero, Yu Junghyeok survives alone. As he writes an angry letter to the author, calling it “the worst novel”.
After sending the letter, the apocalyptic world of the novel suddenly becomes reality, and the novel’s omnipotent hero Yu Jung-hyeok (Lee Min-ho) appears before Kim. As the only person who knows how to survive in this world, Kim and his companions rescue Yu Jung-hyeok and strive to save the world by writing his own, new ending.
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy arrives on digital on December 15th.
