Showbox has unveiled the primary trailer for “Colony,” the brand new Korean motion thriller from “Practice to Busan” director Yeon Sang-ho.
The movie, which stars Gianna Jun as a scientist caught in a quickly escalating viral outbreak, has been chosen for the Midnight Screening part on the Cannes Movie Competition.
The story facilities on Se-jeong, a biotechnology professor who’s attending an business convention when a fast-mutating virus is launched, sending the occasion into chaos. With these uncovered starting to alter, authorities lock down the complete facility, leaving survivors trapped inside with a risk that retains rising. The movie’s logline reads: “Because the virus spreads, the order begins to mutate.”
Gianna Jun, identified internationally for “Assassination” and “Kingdom: Ashin of the North,” leads a deep ensemble. Koo Kyo-hwan, who appeared in each “Escape” and Netflix collection “Parasyte: The Gray,” co-stars alongside Ji Chang-wook (“Revolver,” “The Worst of Evil”), Shin Hyun-been (“The Ugly,” “Reborn Wealthy”), Kim Shin-rock (“Hellbound,” “Candy House”), and Go Soo (“The Fortress,” “Parole Examiner Lee”).
“Colony” is produced by Wowpoint and Smilegate in affiliation with Midnight Studio, with Showbox presenting. Showbox is dealing with worldwide gross sales.
Yeon constructed his repute as an animator, directing the darkish social allegories “The King of Pigs” (2011) and “The Faux” (2013) earlier than crossing into stay motion with “Practice to Busan” and its animated companion piece “Seoul Station,” each launched in 2016. He adopted the zombie thriller with the live-action sequel “Peninsula” in 2020, then moved into tv with “Hellbound,” the Netflix collection that launched in November 2021 and have become the platform’s most-watched collection inside 24 hours of launch.
Watch the trailer right here:
