Cult Korean auteur ParkChan-wook is set to take the sci-fi route. The director (whoseSympathy For Lady Vengeance screened in Venice last week) is to make I Am A Cyborg for CJEntertainment.

Casting details are yet tobe confirmed on the story of a young woman in a mental asylum who believes sheis a cyborg. Eventually, she falls in love with a male patient. Park ispitching the new project as "a strange romance."

Sympathy For LadyVengeance, the third part of Park'srevenge trilogy which started with Sympathy For Mr Vengeance and OldBoy, has been breaking box-office records in South Korea.