SM Entertainment Executive Producer Sooman Lee explained the group Espa's plan to expand the worldview and mentioned the possibility of making it into a Hollywood movie.
Today (29th), SM Entertainment held 'SM CONGRESS 2021' online and announced SM's vision and strategy.
Under the concept of 'Lee Soo Man Show', producer Lee Soo Man directly talked about his plans with his singers.
Regarding the first group Espa, producer Lee Soo-man proudly introduced it as "a team that achieved 100 million views in the shortest period of time", and then, referring to the worldview of Espa, "There was SMP before, but now 'SMCU (SM Culture Universe, SM)' The organic worldview of our artists)' will begin in earnest. That's the beginning of ESPA."
Lee Soo-man explained about the new genre 'CAWMAN' created by SM, saying, "If you look at the (Espa worldview) video, you can see animations and motion graphics. Espa is doing the culture that starts all over the world for the first time." I did.
'Cowman' refers to a mixed genre defined by the initial letters of each genre, in which one big story called SMCU is implemented in various ways as cartoons, animations, webtoons, motion graphics, avatars, and novels.
Regarding this, Soo-Man Lee said, "You will have a completely new, future content experience," and said, "There is talk about making a movie in Hollywood."
Regarding this, Espa member Karina said, "Only one episode of our worldview has been released yet. In the future, many people will wonder if Espa and ae-espa will go on an adventure together in the wilderness and fight against Black Mamba. This year, I will show you the rest of Season 1 We are preparing a variety of content that we can offer, so please look forward to it.”
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