news culture After Cyberpunk Edgerunners, the machines take over in this Science-Fiction film on Netflix!
From January, Netflix will offer us a new nugget in power taking place in a Cyberpunk universe. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, to whom we owe, among other things, Last Train to Busan and the Hellbound series, this new feature film to the tunes of Ghost in The Shell could well turn out to be an excellent surprise.
From the sci-fi filmmaker behind Last Train to Busan
Yeon Sang-ho returns behind the camera and continues his collaboration with Netflix. After the two series Hellbound and The Cursedthe director of Last Train to Busan returns to the long format to offer us a new genre. Instead of the horror to which the South Korean filmmaker has accustomed us, this time, viewers of the streaming platform will be treated to science fiction. Specifically cyberpunk. In any case, this is what the first images shared by Netflix suggest.
JUNG_E sets his scene on Earth, in the 22nd century. The blue planet has become uninhabitable, the civil war is raging. To resolve this conflict, scientists are preparing to transfer the brain of an elite soldier into the body of a mercenary android. Visually, one immediately thinks of Ghost in the Shellor Gunnm. The two works have already had the right to a film adaptation. The adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s manga being known as Alita: Battle Angel (the name of the manga in the United States.)
A new South Korean nugget to expect?
For several years now, Netflix has offered many South Korean productions to its subscribers. The platform has injected more than $500 million into the local audiovisual market to attract the country’s best films and series to Morning Calm. The platform’s all-time biggest hit, Squid Gameis precisely one of the productions resulting from this collaboration.
Beyond Squid Game, viewers are entitled to a large catalog of Korean dramas, but also genre films and series. Hellbound mentioned above, but also sweet home or Money Heist: Koreathe remake of Money Heist… There’s something for everyone now on Netflix. Hoping that JUNG_E will satisfy sci-fi fans when it comes out, next January 20.
