South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho is one of the hottest directors in the world right now, with his most recent film Parasite winning four Academy Awards last night. Most notably, Parasite became the very first foreign language film to win Best Motion Picture of the Year, and it also took home Best International Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
What’s next? Back in November, you may recall, Bong Joon Ho had teased in a chat with Variety that he was developing two different movies, one of which is an action-horror film!
He told the site, “One is a Korean-language one, and the other one is an English-language one. Both projects are not big films. They’re the size of Parasite or Mother.”
“The Korean film is located in Seoul and has unique elements of horror and action. It’s difficult to define the genre of my films.”
As reported by Indiewire today, Bong Joon Ho told press backstage at the Academy Awards last night that both films are still in the works, and won’t be impacted by his Oscar wins.
“I have to work. It’s my job. So I’ve been working for the past 20 years, and regardless what happened at Cannes and Oscars, I had been working on two projects before then, I’m continuing to work on them, nothing has changed because of these awards,” Bong told the press. He again noted, “One is in Korean and one is in English.”
Most of Bong Joon Ho’s films have some horror elements in them, but the closest he’s come to making a full-on horror film would have to be The Host, arguably one of the best monster movies ever made. The 2006 film had elements of both horror and action in it, so if that film was any indication of what he can do within those arenas, we’re in for a real treat.
Then again, what *isn’t* a treat when Bong Joon Ho is involved? More as we learn it!