Age: 45
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Jung Byung-gil (born August 7, 1980) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Jung was trained at the Seoul Action School. He graduated from Chung-Ang University, majoring in film, before making his directorial debut with a documentary about stuntmen, Action Boys, in 2008. Jung gained international recognition with the action thriller The Villainess, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. He is set to make his Hollywood debut with Afterburn, an adaptation of the comic of the same name, starring Gerard Butler.
As a child in Seoul, Helena Bertinelli watched her parents executed — her father, an exiled Italian mob captain who fled Gotham after a failed war tied to the remnants of Carmine Falcone’s empire, and her mother, a Korean power broker born into one of South Korea’s most powerful syndicates. The murders were staged to look like an act of Gotham Mafia retaliation, a violent echo of the war her father supposedly brought with him. Years later, Helena uncovers the truth: there was no foreign vendetta. Her parents had begun steering the empire toward legitimacy and restraint, choosing love over hierarchy and reform over fear. Her uncle saw their independence as weakness — a threat to stability and his authority — and eliminated them while manipulating evidence to blame Gotham’s underworld. Armed with the very training he gave her, Helena turns against her uncle. She dismantles his empire piece by piece — exposing corruption, collapsing alliances, and erasing the men who carried out the order. This is not justice. It is inheritance reclaimed. In breaking the dynasty that tried to own her, Helena becomes what her uncle never anticipated: not his heir, not his pawn — but his reckoning.
