LOS ANGELES (AP) --- Actor Steven Yeun is getting some of highest acclaim of his career, and awards buzz, for the South Korean film "Burning," a lyrical and anxious adaptation of Haruki Murakami's short story "Barn Burning." But it almost didn't happen, at least with Yeun. Director Lee Chang-dong, a celebrated filmmaker who has not yet reached the Western name recognition of some of his countrymen like Park Chan-wook ("Oldboy") or Bong Joon-ho ("Okja"), had cast a Korean actor in the role of Ben, a mysterious and disquieting outsider with Gatsby-like slickness who comes into the lives of two lonely young people. When scheduling conflicts and a delay in production left them without...
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