Part true crime and global spy thriller, the documentary investigates the 2017 assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in a Malaysian airport. The brazen attack was caught on camera, with two young women — Siti Aishah from Indonesia, and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam — shown attacking Kim with a VX nerve agent while he walked through the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
After their arrests, the girls say they believed they were part of a prank show. South Korea said the murder was an assassination by the North Korean government. Smith, who won a Sundance award in 2014 for“Some stories can’t be made up and in, Ryan White does a terrific job unpacking one of the most mind-boggling stories in recent memory,” Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles said Friday. “We’re very excited to bring it to American audiences and beyond.
No terms were disclosed in this deal, but it’s Magnolia’s second significant pickup this week in Park City. On Wednesday, Deadline scooped that it had teamed with Topic Studios on
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