Surprising his fans in May last year, the webtoon 'Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint' or commonly abbreviated as ORV was rumored to be soon being adapted into a Korean film.
This news is of course a joy for the webtoon readers, because readers have been waiting for their favorite characters to show their actions on the small screen for a long time.
It didn't stop there, fans and even the public were again shocked by the news that the actors who would play in the ORV film were top celebrities such as Lee Min Ho, Ahn Hyo Seop, and many more!
Apart from starring top celebrities, there are many more interesting facts about ORV. Come on, let's see together!
Initially Present in Novel Form
Cover novel Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint/foto : UMI (Redice Studio)
Although many fans first became familiar with ORV from the webtoon, ORV is actually a novel published by an author in Korea by the name of Shing Song.
From the novel, which has around 550 chapters, ORV was then adapted into a webtoon comic with the same title. After being adapted into a comic, ORV's popularity increased drastically. Even though the novel version has been completed, currently the ORV webtoon is still in the on-going process.
Estimated to be one of the films with the most expensive production costs
Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint/ foto: twitter @/Munpia
This ORV is a story in the apocalyptic fantasy fiction genre which displays many scenes typical of stories in the fantasy genre that are amazing and unthinkable to humans.
To make the scene feel real later, a lot of work will definitely be involved, as well as high-level technology that is not cheap. Plus, the actors who play later are also top stars who have high salaries.
So it is not surprising that ORV will later become one of the films with the most expensive production costs.
Raising a Unique Story Theme
Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint/ foto: singNsong di Munpia
'Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint' tells the story of a reader named Kim Dok Ja. He is an ordinary company employee who spent his free time for ten years reading a web novel.
Kim Dok Ja, who was the only reader of the web novel, was one day told by the author that his novel would soon be finished, the author then sent him a file containing the end of the story.
However, when he was about to open the file, Kim Dok Ja suddenly discovered that the web novel he had been reading since he was a teenager was now a reality.
The figure of the main character who had been the reason he survived appeared in front of him, fighting against enemies whose appearance he could only imagine through the author's descriptions.
As the only person who knows the future, Kim Dok Ja wants to change the ending of the story. However, there are many storylines that deviate and change from what Kim Dok Ja read before, there are many new characters he meets, as well as many surprising facts that are also related to him and the web novel.
With a story full of struggle packaged through a story full of mystery, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint is a comic that will teach us many things, starting from what loyalty, sacrifice, hard work means, to how complicated relationships and feelings are.
This ORV will be suitable for reading by all groups, whether they are lovers of the action, comedy, drama or even romance genres!
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