Hostage: Missing Celebrity(Movie, 2021)

Hostage: Missing Celebrity (Korean: 인질; Hanja: 人質; RR: Injil) is a 2021 South Korean action thriller film, written and directed by Pil Kam-sung for Next Entertainment World. It is a feature debut of the director and is based on the 2015 Chinese film Saving Mr. Wu. Starring Hwang Jung-min, the film is about the kidnapping of Korean top film star Hwang Jung-min by strangers. First, he thinks it is a prank, then he soon realises that it is no joke, as the kidnappers demand from him a huge amount of ransom within 24 hours. The film with a production cost of ₩8 billion was ready for release in 2020 but its release was postponed due to the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hostage: Missing Celebrity was theatrically released on August 18, 2021. As of December 22, 2021, it is the third highest-grossing Korean film of 2021, with a gross of US$13.07 million and 1.63 million admissions. ()