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Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy
When Kim Dok-ja’s favorite apocalypse web-novel rips into reality, an office worker becomes the one reader who can rewrite the script. Director Kim Byung-woo turns the hit webtoon Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint into a blend of disaster spectacle and metaphysical puzzle, shot across tunnels and blasted cityscapes. Ahn Hyo-seop charts Dok-ja’s evolution, while Lee Min-ho strides in as the novel’s hero Yoo Joong-hyuk, their partnership blazing twin-star charisma. Jisoo and Chae Soo-bin keep the human stakes vivid beneath leviathan gods and time-loop gambits. Expect set pieces, sly humour, and big-screen scale under summer lights. Premiering at NYAFF, this action-fantasy epic meditates on how stories shape survival... and whether knowledge can outrun fate.