Veteran Korean filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho is currently in production for his new zombie film titled Gunche.
The zombie thriller will star Jun Ji-hyun (My Love from the Star), Go Soo (Missing), Ji Chang-wook (The Worst of Evil) and Koo Kyo-hwan (D.P.).
Slated for release next year, the Gunche marks Yeon’s first collaboration with Jun, who returns to the big screen after nearly a decade. Her last role in a film was with the 2015 action thriller Assassination.
Distributed by Showbox, the film’s English title has not been confirmed yet. In the Korean language, “gunche” means colony in a biological context.
Yeon is known for his global box office hit Train to Busan as well as its sequel, Train to Busan: Peninsula. Train to Busan grossed over $98 million on an $8 million budget.
Showbox described the upcoming zombie thriller from Yeon as “the culmination of Yeon Sang-ho’s universe, spanning from Train to Busan to Peninsula.”
Yeon signed with WME this week and also produces via his production company WOWPOINT.
He has also helmed Netflix series Hellbound and Parasyte: The Grey, as well as films like Seoul Station and The King of Pigs.
Yeon will release Revelations via Netflix on March 21, with the film executive produced by Alfonso Cuaron. The story follows a pastor and a detective who team up for a missing persons case. The director will also premiere The Ugly this year, which is based on Yeon’s 2018 graphic novel of the same name.
