TRAIN TO BUSAN PRESENTS: PENINSULA (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Gang Dong-won (My Brilliant Life), Lee Jung-hyun (Juvenile Offender), Lee Re (How to Steal a Dog), Kwon Hae-hyo (Yourself and Yours), Kim Min-jae (Psychokinesis), Koo Kyo-hwan (Jane), Kim Do-yoon (The Wailing), Lee Ye-won (My Last Love), Jang So-yeon (High Society), Moon Woo-jin (film debut), Kim Kyu-baek (Midnight Runners), Bella Rahim (Train Station)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan), director, writer; Park Joo-Suk (Hwayi: A Monster Boy), writer; Lee Dong-ha (Kai), producer; Mowg (Burning), composer; Lee Hyung-deok (Shadows in the Palace), cinematographer; Yang Jin-mo (Parasite), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Four years after a zombie outbreak has devastated the Korean peninsula, a guilt-ridden former soldier (Dong-won) is given a mission to retrieve a valuable resource from within the zombie-ridden hellscape…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Following the unexpected success of the Korean zombie horror Train to Busan, director Yeon Sang-ho presents a standalone sequel that explores the devastating consequences of that film, and the post-apocalyptic world born from them.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2020 (IN CINEMAS*)

(WRITTEN BEFORE LOCKDOWN ANNOUNCEMENT)

 

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