At the moment revelling within the success of recently-uploaded Don Lee-starring movie “Badland Hunters” and already teasing the second season of “Squid Recreation,” Netflix has unveiled a serious slate of Korean movies and collection for 2024.
In August final yr, Netflix publicly dedicated to investing $2.5 billion on Korean content material over the subsequent 4 years. That mirrored each Netflix’s place because the nation’s main streamer, with an estimated 6.5 million subscribers, and its adopted position as one of many largest exporters of Korean movie and TV content material.
“We have been capable of make this [investment] choice as a result of we now have nice confidence that the Korean artistic business will proceed to inform nice tales,” stated the streamer’s co-chief Ted Sarandos on the time of the spending dedication.
The Tuesday reveal is a mixture of: first-look photos and updates for beforehand introduced initiatives (together with the retitled Park Chan-wook-produced movie “Rebellion” and the second season of zombie horror collection “Candy Residence”); extra seasons for returning collection; and contemporary commissions.
Among the many re-ups are: Season 3 of the Studio Dragon-produced “Candy Residence,” which is able to premiere this summer time, “as monsterization ends and a brand new humanity begins”; Season 2 of “Gyeongsang Creature”; Season 4 of actuality relationship collection “Single’s Inferno,” attributable to launch within the fourth quarter; Season 2 of leisure present “Zombieverse,” additionally set for the fourth quarter; and the beforehand introduced Season 2 of comic-book impressed thriller “Hellbound.” “Prepare to Busan” director Yeon Sang-ho directs and is about to ship the finished season within the fourth quarter.
Earlier than that, Yeon is because of full “Parasyte: The Gray,” a live-action adaptation of Iwaaki Hitoshi’s hit manga about parasites within the human mind which might be making an attempt to take over society, within the second quarter. It has a powerhouse forged together with Jeon So-nee, Koo Kyo-hwan, Lee Jung-hyun, Kwon Hae-hyo and Kim In-kwon.
In addition to zombies and horror, the brand new slate goes lengthy on romance collection. These embrace: “Charming the King,” which explores love in a historic sport of Go; modern-day “Queen of Tears,” that includes Kim Soo-hyun (“It’s Okay To not Be Okay”) and Kim Ji-won; medical comedy in” Physician Stoop”; “Resident Playbook,” with Go Youn-jung (“Alchemy of Souls”) in a spin-off of “Hospital Playlist”; finish of life comedy-romance in “Mr. Plankton”; teen revenge romance “Hierarchy”; and, the Gong Yoo-starring “The Trunk,” during which darkish secrets and techniques emerge from a clandestine matchmaking service.
4 suspense collection are: suspense lovers, “The Bequeathed,” with murders, darkish secrets and techniques and household burial grounds; “A Killer Paradox,” Choi Woo-sik (“Parasite”) and Son Suk-ku (“D.P.”) play an intricate sport of chase; “The Frog,” set in a mysterious motel; and “The Whirlwind,” during which a political feud must be settled.
Park Chan-wook (“Previous Boy,” “Resolution to Depart”) is about as producer and screenwriter of historic drama movie, “Rebellion,” which was beforehand titled “Struggle and Revolt.” Directed by Kim Sang-man and starring Gang Dong-won and Park Jeong-min, the image recounts a narrative of two childhood pals turned adversaries and is about for supply within the fourth quarter.
Different movie embrace: romance and drama title “My Identify is Loh Kiwan” with Music Joong-ki (Vincenzo); actioner “Officer Black Belt,” with Kim Woo-bin (“Black Knight”); sci-fi catastrophe “The Nice Flood,” with Park Hae-soo (“Narco-Saints”).
The Korean unscripted slate contains: the beforehand introduced Season 2 of “Bodily 100”; particular brokers fixing weird circumstances in “Brokers of Thriller”; rich show-offs in “Tremendous Wealthy in Korea”; influencers competing for consideration in “The Influencer,” and a culinary showdown in “Unknown Cooks.”
