Late last year, Neon had acquired North American rights to Okja and The Host director Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite from South Korea’s CJ Entertainment. Now, ahead of a rumored Cannes World Premiere, a trailer has dropped. Unfortunately, there are no subtitles, but it looks as impressive as any of Ho’s other works that also include Snowpiercer.
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 Kang Ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) 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.
I’d expect to see this released by Neon this summer.
