‘Moving’ Creator Kang Full Talks Korean Superheroes, AI Impact & Adapting His Iconic Webtoon For Disney+
02.08.2023 - 05:55
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EXCLUSIVE: On August 9, Disney will drop the first seven episodes of its adaptation of Korean artist Kang Full’s Moving webtoon worldwide on Hulu and Disney+.
Directed by Park Inje (Kingdom Season 2), the 20-episode series tells the story of three teenagers who have inherited unusual physical powers from their secret agent parents.
While on the surface they look like ordinary high school kids, each has the power to transcend a different physical limitation like gravity, speed or pain. But with outside forces keen to exploit these talents, their parents know it’s safer to keep them hidden away.
Lee Jungha (Run On), Go Younjung (Sweet Home) and Kim Dohoon (The Law Café) play the teenagers, while the parents are played by Ryu Seungryong (Extreme Job), Han Hyojoo (The Beauty Inside) and Zo Insung (Escape From Mogadishu). You can watch the trailer here.
Kang Full, who also wrote the screenplay for the series, adapted from his own webtoon released on Kakao’s platform in 2015, agreed to give Deadline the first interview he’s done with non-Korean press.
A pioneer in the webtoon space, Kang released his first long form scrolling comic, Love Story, back in 2003. The unconventional narrative, featuring romantic relationships with a big age gap, racked up 32 million views and 250,000 comments, and the webtoon industry was born.
He says the attraction of creating webtoons back then was the freedom it gave him. “I’d always wanted to be a cartoon artist, but Korea’s traditional cartoon industry was sunsetting around then,” Kang says, referring to an era when Korean “manhwa” was struggling to compete with Japanese manga, which had only recently been allowed to enter the Korean market.
“The way it worked in the past is that a new