# Die Bad

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{{Infobox film
| name           = Die Bad
| image          = Die_Bad_Poster.jpg
| caption        = Korean film poster for ''Die Bad''
| native_name      = {{Infobox Korean film name/auto|hangul=^죽거나 혹은 나쁘거나|hanja=죽거나 或은 나쁘거나}}
| director       = [Ryoo Seung-wan](/source/Ryoo_Seung-wan)
| producer       = Kim Sun-guk <br/> Seung Heung-chan
| writer         = [Ryoo Seung-wan](/source/Ryoo_Seung-wan)
| starring       = [Ryoo Seung-wan](/source/Ryoo_Seung-wan)<br />Park Sung-bin<br />[Ryoo Seung-bum](/source/Ryoo_Seung-bum)<br />Bae Jung-shik
| music          = Kim Dong-kyu <br/> Kim Sung-hyun
| cinematography = Jo Yong-gyu<br />Choi Young-hwan
| editing        = Kang Myeong-hwan
| distributor    = [CNP Entertainment](/source/CNP_Entertainment)
| released       = {{Film date|2000|10|12|[Pusan International Film Festival](/source/Pusan_International_Film_Festival)}}
| runtime        = 98 minutes
| country        = South Korea
| language       = Korean
| budget         = {{USD|261,000}}
}}
'''''Die Bad''''' ({{Korean|hangul=죽거나 혹은 나쁘거나}}) is a 2000 South Korean film. It was the debut film of director [Ryoo Seung-wan](/source/Ryoo_Seung-wan) and starred the director and his brother [Ryoo Seung-bum](/source/Ryoo_Seung-bum) along with Park Sung-bin and Bae Jung-shik. The film consists of four distinct parts that were originally created as short films. The parts are connected through the main story of the protagonist Sung-bin's descent into a life of crime.

==Plot==
The first of the film's four parts is titled ''Rumble''. The events start with two groups of rival teenagers hanging out in a bar, playing pool. They end up fighting and the main character Park Sung-bin accidentally kills another youth. He is thrown to prison for the next seven years.

The second part is titled ''Nightmare'' after the dreams Sung-bin still has about the man he killed. Sung-bin is trying to get back on track after being released from prison. He manages to get a job in a garage with the help of his brother, but his father still seems to loathe him for his past misdeeds. Eventually Sung-bin ends up saving a local crime boss, Kim Tae-hoon from a brutal beating and gets a job from him.

The next segment, ''Modern Man'', intermixes fake documentary style interviews with a long fight between Kim Tae-hoon and Suk-hwan, an old friend of Sung-bin who was with him on the night that Sung-bin killed the man. Suk-hwan is now a police officer and his part of the interview tells about his job fighting crime while Kim Tae-hoon's interview segments show him speaking about his career in crime.

The last, longest segment is titled ''Die Bad''. Sung-bin is taking control of his own group after Kim Tae-hoon is taken to prison. Sung-bin recruits a gang of youths, including Suk-hwan's brother, to serve as knife fodder in largely meaningless fights. In the end, Suk-hwan confronts and kills Sung-bin, but his brother is also killed.

== American remake ==
A Hollywood [remake](/source/remake) is currently {{when|date=September 2018}} in development. [Universal Studios](/source/Universal_Pictures) bought the remake rights and in November 2008, it was announced that director [Marc Forster](/source/Marc_Forster) was attached to direct. It will be produced by Foster and his producing partner Brad Simpson at their Apparatus Productions along with [Vertigo Entertainment](/source/Vertigo_Entertainment)'s [Roy Lee](/source/Roy_Lee) and Overnight Productions' Doug Davison and Rick Schwartz.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}

Screenwriter [Brad Ingelsby](/source/Brad_Ingelsby) was hired to write the screenplay. Ingelsby made a name for himself in March 2008 by selling his debut spec script ''The Low Dweller'' to [Relativity Media](/source/Relativity_Media) for $650,000 against $1.1 million.  That project has [Leonardo DiCaprio](/source/Leonardo_DiCaprio) attached to produce and possibly star through his [Appian Way Productions](/source/Appian_Way_Productions) and has [Ridley Scott](/source/Ridley_Scott) attached to produce through his [Scott Free Productions](/source/Scott_Free_Productions).{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}

As of January 2011, there is currently no movement on the ''Die Bad'' remake.

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0267622|Die Bad}}
* {{Kmdb film|05234|Die Bad}}
* [http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm00.html#diebad Kyu Hyun Kim's review at Koreanfilm.org]

{{Ryoo Seung-wan}}

Category:2000 films
Category:2000 action thriller films
Category:2000s crime action films
Category:2000 crime thriller films
Category:South Korean action thriller films
Category:South Korean crime action films
Category:South Korean crime thriller films
Category:South Korean gangster films
Category:South Korean independent films
Category:South Korean anthology films
Category:South Korean neo-noir films
Category:Films directed by Ryoo Seung-wan
Category:2000 Korean-language films
Category:2000 directorial debut films
Category:2000 South Korean films

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