As he prepares to make his much-anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-winning Parasite, Bong Joon Ho has been constructing a superb solid, together with Robert Pattinson within the lead. He is including a previous collaborator to that ensemble, as Steven Yeun is now aboard.

Bong is writing and directing an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel Mickey7. The story follows the titular Mickey7, who’s an Expendable: a disposable worker on a human expedition despatched to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Every time there’s a mission that’s too harmful, even suicidal, the crew turns to Mickey.

After one iteration dies, a brand new physique is regenerated with most of his reminiscences intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the phrases of his deal… And why it was the one colonial place unfilled when he took it.

This being Bong, we are able to anticipate him to run the narrative by means of his personal filter and provide you with one thing recent. Along with Pattinson, the solid consists of Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette. Yeun, in the meantime, beforehand labored with Bong on 2017’s Netflix film Okja.

Subsequent up for the actor is Jordan Peele’s Nope, which will likely be in UK cinemas on 12 August.