Following the Sunday night screening that rocked Cannes, and the teaser trailer release online yesterday that got many buzzing, the upcoming Korean sci-fi action thriller “Hope” may get a sequel should the film prove a success.
Celebrated “The Wailing” filmmaker Na Hong-jin directs the film and attended a press conference for it on Monday, saying a script for a follow-up has already been completed and he hopes to make it:
“I think you can readily imagine this sequel. And there’s a script that’s already been done that I’d like to shoot. So if I have the opportunity, I would indeed make a sequel if possible.”
Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, and Hoyeon Jung lead the cast of the film that also stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton as aliens.
The biggest budget feature in Korean history, the story begins in the isolated village of Hope Harbor, not far from the DMZ. Police chief Bum-seok (Hwang Jung- min) and officer Sung-ae (Hoyeon) are called to find a mysterious creature that has wreaked havoc on the village.
In the nearby forest, a coterie of hunters, including Sung- ki (Zo In-Sung) set out to track the beast and find themselves hunted instead. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as a simple rural emergency quickly snowballs into something far stranger — a cosmic mystery that tears the town’s sense of reality apart.
NEON will release the film this Fall in cinemas.
Source: Variety
