Yeon Sang-ho, who’s finest recognized for guiding 2016’s Prepare to Busan, is making his first English-language horror film.
Per Deadline, Yeon has been tapped to put in writing and direct a brand new action-horror film titled thirty fifth Road for TriStar Photos. The script is being written by Ryu Yong-jae, whereas Appian Means and WOW POINT are producing the movie.
Plot particulars for thirty fifth Road are being saved beneath wraps right now.
What was Yeon Sang-ho’s Prepare to Busan about?
Prepare to Busan is a South Korean horror film set throughout a zombie apocalypse that stars Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, and Choi Woo-shik. The movie wound up being a large hit, bringing in roughly $98.5 million on the international field workplace off an estimated $8.5 million finances.
“Prepare to Busan is a harrowing zombie horror-thriller that follows a bunch of terrified passengers combating their manner by a national viral outbreak, trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet practice trip to the Protected Zone…which can or might not nonetheless be there,” the synopsis for the film reads.
Yeon wrote and directed an animated prequel to Prepare to Busan, titled Seoul Station, which was launched in 2016. He additionally helmed the 2020 sequel, Peninsula, which starred Gang Dong-won and Lee Jung-hyun.
Moreover, Yeon has directed movies reminiscent of 2011’s The King of Pigs, 2013’s The Pretend, 2018’s Psychokinesis, and 2023’s Jung_E. He additionally helmed all six episodes of Netflix’s Hellbound (which was primarily based on a webtoon of the identical identify created by Yeon) and the not too long ago launched Parasyte: The Gray sequence, which additionally premiered on Netflix.
No casting info for thirty fifth Road is accessible right now and a launch date has not but been introduced by TriState Photos.
