South Korea’s CJ Entertainment has sold Neon the North American rights to Okja and The Host director Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, says ScreenDaily.
Parasite is Bong’s return to Korean-language filmmaking after Okja and Snowpiercer, and stars Song Kang Ho in his fourth collaboration with the director.
The story follows the character of Ki-taek and his unemployed family as they take a peculiar interest in the Park family – until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Song stars as Ki-taek alongside Lee Sun-kyun (A Hard Day) and Cho Yeo-jeong (Obsessed) as the Parks, and Choi Woo Shik (Okja), Park So-dam (The Priests) and Chang Hyae Jin (Poetry) as, respectively, Ki-taek’s son, daughter and wife.
Currently in post after wrapping production in September, the film is set for local release in 2019.
