4th Collaboration for Famed Director-Actor Duo
Director
BONG Joon-ho and star
SONG Kang-ho are set to team up once again for the film
Parasite, which will kick off production in January of next year. Little is known about the project so far, save that it will be Korean, will focus on a family faced with a grave situation and that it will be distributed by
CJ Entertainment, who was behind the last team up between the director-actor combo, 2013’s
Snowpiercer, and financed by
Barunson E&A Corp.
The pair already have one of the most celebrated professional relationships in Korean cinema, having collaborated on several modern classics, including the mystery-thriller
Memories Of Murder (2003), considered by many as one of the greatest Korean films of all time, the monster feature blockbuster
The Host (2006), which became the highest grossing Korean film of all time at the time of its release, and the global dystopian sci-fi
Snowpiercer.
The film will follow the upcoming Okja for director BONG, a big-budget international film being financed and distributed by online streaming giant Netflix. Starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano and more, the film will hit the online service on June 28th.