MONO will play the lead role in Dumb Luck - a film adapted from the novel So Do by writer Vu Trong Phung, a master of Vietnamese critical realism literature.

Information provided by director and producer Phan Gia Nhat Linh announced on personal Facebook page this afternoon (December 5).

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Phan Gia Nhat Linh wrote: "This is the most challenging project in my career so far. There is still a long way to go, but at the same time this project gives me a lot of inspiration."

At the same time, he also thanked MONO because the singer "accepted this risky but very red game".

The director said the project was announced today at ATF (Asia TV Forum) with two major international partners: Fremantle and Beach House Pictures.

According to movie news site Screendaily , Phan Gia Nhat Linh, who is known for his films The girl from yesterday and I am your grandmother , will write the script and direct the movie.

The film is set in the final years of the regime. French colonialism along with the rise of reform movements and rising nationalism in Vietnam in the 1930s.

Film co-produced by three countries

So Do was published in 1936 and first printed in book form in 1938. To this day, the work still retains its value.

The novel revolves around the character Xuan Toc Do - a street urchin, exposing himself to the sidewalk doing all kinds of jobs from climbing tamarinds, selling peanuts... so his hair is red, thanks to his luck and his roguery, he becomes a doctor, a doctor, a tennis professor, a social reformer, a Buddhist reformer, an advisor to the newspaper Go Mo, and finally a "national hero", a "great man".

According to According to writer Vu Trong Phung, this satirical novel "focuses heavily on expressing human deformities in a society that is in the process of late-season bourgeoisification."

Screendaily information Dumb Luck A co-production between Vietnam, Korea and Singapore, initiated by Anh Teu Studio, Sidus and Teu Entertainment - a joint venture company established by Anh Teu Studio and Sidus, Korea's largest production company - in co-production with Beach House Pictures.

The film will be released by CJ CGV, the time has not been announced.