Daniel Dae Kim of Lost and Hawaii-Five-O fame will star in a new movie based on Mike Kim’s Escaping North Korea: Defiance And Hope In The World’s Most Repressive Country

, reports Deadline.

The production is part of Kim’s deal to develop programming for CBS. The movie will be under the umbrella of Kim’s own company, CBS-based 3AD and Sriram Das’ Das Films.

The movie focuses on an underground railroad used to transport defectors from North Korea into Southeast Asia.

You can read more details of some of the people behind the film in Deadline.