SEOUL -- Korean actor Choi Min-shik ("Oldboy") will star in helmer Jeon Soo-il's "Himalayas Project" (working title), which is to be shot in Nepal.

Pic, about a Korean company director taking the remains of a Nepalese migrant worker to his family in the Himalayas, is budgeted at under $500,000 and is being produced by Show East.

Pic is expected to shoot for a month in Nepal, and will be completed in time to be considered for Cannes. Jeon's previous film, "A Girl of Black Soil," screened in the Horizons section at Venice in 2007.