Emergency Declaration Movie Details:
Hangul | 비상선언 |
Hanja | 非常宣言 |
Revised Romanization | Bisang Seoneon |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Genre | Action, Thriller |
Release date | July 16, 2021 (Cannes) August 3, 2022 (South Korea) |
Running time | 2hr 20min |
Certificate | 16+ |
Starring | Song Kang-ho Lee Byung-hun Jeon Do-yeon Kim Nam-gil Im Si-wan Kim So-jin Park Hae-joon |
Directed by | Han Jae-rim |
Screenplay by | Han Jae-rim |
Produced by | Han Jae-rim Baek Chang-joo Eum Zoo-young |
Cinematography by | Lee Mo-gae Park Jong-Chul |
Edited by | Kim Woo-Hyun Lee Kang-il Han Jae-rim |
Music by | Lee Byung-woo |
Production Company | Wooju Film Co., Ltd. Showbox Co., Ltd. |
Distributor | Showbox |
Emergency Declaration Movie Cast & Characters:
- Here’s the list of characters and their descriptions without the numbers:
- Song Kang-ho as Gu In-ho, a detective
- Lee Byung-hun as Park Jae-hyuk, a passenger who is a disgraced former pilot
- Jeon Do-yeon as Kim Sook-hee, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
- Kim Nam-gil as Choi Hyun-soo, the first officer
- Im Si-wan as Ryu Jin-seok, the bioterrorist on the airplane
- Kim So-jin as Kim Hee-jin, the chief flight attendant
- Park Hae-joon as Park Tae-su, Blue House Crisis Management Center director
- Ahn Jeong Ho
- Lee Yul-eum as Park Shi-young, a flight attendant
- Moon Sook as Doctor Han, a passenger who is a doctor
- Jeon Su-ji as Assistant Oh
- Seol In-ah as Tae-eun, a flight attendant
- Jang Seo-yeon as flight attendant
- Shin Soo-yeon as High School student, a passenger who boards the airplane.
- Kim Gook-hee as Mi-ryang, a passenger who boards the airplane with her friend.
- Woo Mi-hwa as Hye-yoon, In-ho’s wife who is a passenger
- Hyun Bong-sik as Park Yoon-chul, the investigative partner who came with Inho.
- Kim Bo-min as Soo-min, the daughter of Jae-hyuk whom he travels with
- Lee Soo-mi as Hye-yoon’s friend, a passenger who boards the airplane.
- Kwon Han-sol as Min-jung, In-ho’s daughter
Storyline:
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Emergency Declaration Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
Budget | ₩26 billion |
Worldwide Collection | US$21.4 million |
About Emergency Declaration Movie:
Filming restarted on September 12, 2020, after a postponement due to the COVID-19 resurgence in August 2020. The film was wrapped up on October 24, 2020.
On August 29, 2019, Showbox confirmed that Song Kang-ho and Lee Byung-hun have agreed to appear in director Han Jae-rim’s next film Emergency Declaration.
Filming began in May 2020 and wrapped up in October 2020.
The airplane set was made by airlifting the entire waste plane from the United States. The motif of the early model of the Boeing 777, was used to create a set. With the help of a gimbal with a diameter of 7 meters and a length of 12 meters, it was made to rotate at 360-degree rotation.
Emergency Declaration premiered out of competition at the 74th Cannes Film Festival on July 16, 2021, before being released theatrically in South Korea on August 3, 2022. The film was screened in various formats, including on a 4DX screen combining 4DX and ScreenX in addition to IMAX. It was released in the United States on August 12, 2022, and in Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Malaysia on August 4.
Produced at a cost of ₩26 billion (US$22.73 million), the film opened in first place at the South Korean box office and surpassed two million admissions in 18 days. It is the 8th highest-grossing Korean film of 2022.
There were five rounds of auditions to choose actors who could realize the image and acting tone of each passenger.