Jamie Chung is set to star in the upcoming indie drama Eden, about a Korean American girl forced into prostitution by human trafickers, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The “gritty” film, based on a true story, will also star Scoot McNairy (Monsters) and will be directed by Megan Griffiths, director of The Off Hours. The story is by Richard B. Phillips and Chong Kim and Phillips and Griffiths co-wrote the screenplay.
Throughout the two years she is held, she ensures her own survival by carving out power and influence within the very organization that has imprisoned her.
Chung is currently shooting Knife Fight along with Rob Lowe.
She has Columbia’s Premium Rush, a thiller in which he appears opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon, in the can, as well as Man with the Iron First.
