JUNG-E: Kim Hyun-Joo Ends Film Hiatus To Lead ‘Train To Busan’ Director’s Sci-Fi War Epic
Celebrated director Yeon Sang-ho (Train To Busan, Peninsula, Hellbound) is currently in production with futuristic sci-fi, tentatively titled Jung-E, as announced by Netflix earlier this week. The film stars actresses Kim Hyun-joo and Kang Soo-youn, and actor Ryu Kyung-soo (A Resistance, Itaewon Class, Lovestruck in the City) from a script storied and written by Yeon. Per the streamer, “The setting of this film is in the 22nd century where climate changes have made Earth uninhabitable, and humans are living in a man-made shelter. An internal war breaks out, and its outcome hinges on the success of brain cloning technology of the legendary robot mercenary Jung-E.” Kim, whose prominent career on television took hold following her last film appearance in Kim Do-hyuk’s Shin Suk-ki Blues (2004), makes her feature film return here in Jung-E now in a titular capacity – the role billed as “the most elite soldier of the allied forces fighting […]