Bong Joon-ho Plans Subway Horror Tale

Currently out there promoting “Mickey 17,” filmmaker Bong Joon-ho has revealed that his next project will shift away from the distant ice planet setting of that film and down to the Korean subway network.

In a new interview with MBC Korea (via Fangoria), the Oscar-winning “Parasite” and “Memories of Murder” filmmaker says his next live-action film will be an action-horror title set in the subway of Seoul.

He previously indicated it will be a smaller film akin to the scale of “Parasite” or his 2009 thriller “Mother”. He tells the outlet the new film is “kind of like my life project. I’ve been thinking about it since 2001.”

The host asks Bong to describe the first 90 seconds of the film and he says:

“We’re running through the underground section of the subway. In the car next to us, people wearing similar clothes start to come over to our side. We’re running. A lot of people start to come over to our side.”

Obvious comparisons are going to be made to Yeon Sang-ho’s highly acclaimed “Train to Busan” but that film sounds more action and fast-paced focus than Bong’s which will likely be something more akin to his acclaimed 2006 creature feature “The Host”.

Bong is also working separately on a CG-animated drama feature about deep sea creatures whose underwater oasis is threatened. Inspired by Claire Nouvian’s novel “The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss,” that film will be the most expensive Korean film ever made.

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