A Vietnam-Korea-Singapore film adaptation of Vu Trong Phung’s 1936 novel, “Dumb Luck” is in the works, production partners Fremantle, Beach House Pictures (BHP) and Ahn Teu Studio (ATS) said in Singapore this afternoon.

This is the U.K.-based Fremantle’s first production collaboration with BHP, which it acquired in February this year.

The film will be written and directed by Phan Gia Nhat Linh (“The Girl from Yesterday”) and produced by Anh Teu Studio (ATS) and Sidus and Teu Entertainment (SATE), in collaboration with Beach House Pictures.

Producers are Lê Thanh Phong (A Viet Media), Yuno Choi (Sidus and Teu Entertainment), Vu Quynh Ha (CJ HK Entertainment), and Phan Gia Nhat Linh (Anh Teu Studio).

“Dumb Luck”, set in 1930s Vietnam, follows the implausible and hilarious adventures of Red-Haired Xuân, an unscrupulous vagrant, as he rises from poverty to the top of society and becomes revered as the poster child of the country's Europeanisation movement.

Vietnamese singer and musician, MONO, will play the lead role of Red-Haired Xuân.

The film will be distributed by CJ CGV in Vietnam.