X Checks In With News On The Latest from Jang Joon-Hwan of Save the Green Planet!

He'll be out of commission for another week or so but X just passed along a quick note filling us in on what Jang Joon-Hwon, the director of Save the Green Planet is up to. Our friend Jiangtou likes to tell a story about studio execs threatening to drive Jang deep into the countryside and lock him in a hotel room witha large thug to ensure he doesn't leave until he finishes a new script, but thug or no it looks like he's finally got something new coming down the line ...

Seems like Jang Joon-Hwan of Save The Green Planet is already writing the script for his second feature film, whose title, unless some production people force him to change it, will be Fartman. [sorry, my email garbled the Korean title] Yeah, you read that right. He was preparing this to be his debut film even before STGP, but he's doing it now, finally. He posted about it on his blog, and it's another strange blend of genres, again with a superhero in mind. He literally wrote: "Superman, Batman, Spiderman... there's many superheroes protecting the Earth, but why are all of them Americans? Isn't it time we have our own superhero?" That's his starting point. A Korean superhero using the power of farts to save the world, basically.

At first I thought it would be his way to make a weird April's Fools, but the post was dated December 2005 so who knows.