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| From Variety - this is as of Aug 3, after only 3 days of screenings.
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Playing surprisingly strong in its Korean bow was Showbox's "D-War," about a massive snake that destroys downtown Los Angeles. Taking in a hefty $19.2 million from 530 runs, "D-War" landed No. 5 on the list of top-grossing pics overseas for the Aug. 3 frame.
"D-War" nabbed the best Korean opening of all time, edging out "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," which bowed at $18 million in its Korean launch. "D-War" opens in the U.S. next month as "Dragon Wars."
| From Movie News and Reviews, Trailers, TV, DVDs, Indie Film Coverage and more - Film.com
Quote: Dreaming of the Dragon Wars
C. Robert Cargill, Aug 02, 2007
You have no idea how much my little geek heart twitters and flutters for dragons. I'm the guy who freaked out over Reign of Fire. I'm the guy that owns, and watches time and again Dragonslayer. I'm the guy who goes to sleep at night dreaming of what Dragonheart would have been like if they kept Patrick Reid Johnson's original concept and had Henson studios make the dragon instead of that lame, not yet ready CG. In fact, check out some photos of the prototypes here, along with a stand-in actor, the young, struggling Clive Owen!
So when I first heard the title D-Wars, I shuddered. Oh no. Not another direct-to-video piece of lameness. Then I heard it was a $70 million Korean film, and having loved the hell out of last year's The Host, I got interested. Then I sat and watched this trailer and gazed upon the poster.
Oh. Freaking wow. Holy crap. DRAGONS! OMG! DRAGONS! Huge, destructive dragons against tanks and helicopters and missiles and machine guns! Everything we'd hoped for in Reign of Fire this movie gives us in the trailer. Oh lord. Oh lord. Calm down, Cargill. Breathe. It's only a trailer. It's only a trailer. BUT IT'S DRAGONS!
And if you check out the tagline on the poster: "They've made our world their battleground." Wow. Sounds like they're trying to capture that feel of Transformers? Hell, that climax footage even looks like Transformers. But with dragons. Um. Yeah. I am so there, I can't even express how fast I'm there. DRAGONS!
What I'm really hoping for, however, is that this is a film trying to capture the spirit of The Host. For those of you that never saw it, The Host is a fantastic film that took the classic giant monster genre and added a level of deep pathos as a family desperately races to save one of their own who might still be alive and in the beast's clutches. The Koreans love their deep character drama in the midst of their big-budget epics. They're not huge fans of spoon-feeding the audience with their films. Methinks this could not only be exciting, but meaty and smart as well.
September 14th cannot come soon enough for the Cargill household.
C. Robert Cargill
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And I found this - SPOILERS - basically it's the entire plot. 
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Check Out Dragon Wars
I saw some international posters for this film about a month back, but where the hell did it come from? Going domestic and dropping the dubbing, Dragon Wars: D-War is ready for the U.S.
Movie Poster & Trailer: Dragon Wars
In a small Korean village, five hundred years ago, a girl named Narin was born carrying the coveted Yeouijoo inside her. The Heavens sent the protector Bochun and his protégé Haram, to ensure that when it came time, Narin was peacefully sacrificed to the pre-determined Good Imoogi. Bochun vigorously trained Haram as a knight, to be prepared for the eventual day when Narin would be delivered to the Good Imoogi. The day the Dark Imoogi, Buraki, and his army destroyed Narin's village looking for the Yeouijoo, Bochun instructed Haram to take her to the Good Imoogi.
The young girl and her knight would then fulfill the giant's serpent's destiny by giving it the power to save the world and become a heavenly dragon. By this time, after spending several years together, Haram and Narin had fallen in love. Unable to sacrifice their love to the benevolent Imoogi, they jumped to their deaths together in each other's arms. The Good Imoogi's destiny was unfulfilled and he would have to wait another five hundred years until the next Yeouijoo appears.
It is now five hundred years later in present day Los Angeles and the quest for the Imoogi is reborn. Haram and Narin have been reincarnated as Ethan Kendrick (Behr) and Sarah Daniels (Brooks) whose bond of love remains unsevered. Ethan is an investigative reporter for the local news. He is closely following a series of unexplainable disasters occurring in the area. When a young woman named Sarah is linked to those occurrences, Ethan remembers that an ancient man he met many years before had predicted all of these events . Ethan finds Sarah and helps her escape the wrath of Buraki and his army. Aware that Sarah must sacrifice herself in order to save the city from the Buraki and ensure that the Good Imoogi becomes the Dragon, Ethan tries to convince Sarah that there is another way to battle the Imoogies. Meanwhile, the FBI agent on the case, Frank Campbell (Forster), has uncovered the Imoogies' intentions through his own investigations. Campbell is ready to sacrifice Sarah to the demonic animals to save Los Angeles. In the face of chaos and destruction, Ethan and Sarah must decide their own fate - whether to defy the will of heaven once again and let the city be destroyed or deliver Sarah to the Good Imoogi.
| __________________ “I’m drawn more towards independent-minded things because I think that’s where the most interesting stories are. But, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s a big-budget thing, or a small little bare-bones movie that I have to pay to be in. For me, it’s more about the story and the character than anything else.”
~ Jason Behr
Last edited by LongTimeFan : 08-11-2007 at 07:03 AM.
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