Netflix is announcing Zero Day, a new conspiracy thriller from creator Eric Newman under his Grand Electric Productions deal with Netflix, and Noah Oppenheim. Both will exec produce the six-part series alongside Robert De Niro who will star, etching his TV debut.
I’m plenty of hours late for at least one of these announcements but so far the best news for action fans adherent to Netflix has arrived as of Tuesday with the upcoming additions of Vietnamese action prequel Furies, and Japanese beat ’em up saga continuation High & Low: The Worst X. Of course there’s more in the streamer’s catalog but these are most certainly my picks.
Folks attending this year’s Berlinale are just days away from the world premiere of Byun Sung-hyun’s killer-looking new thriller, Kill Bok-soon. The Netflix exclusive is back in the headlines as of late Wednesday with a brand new trailer that definitely cranks things up with hard-hitting violence to entice the genre fandom a bit, and with none other than Jeon Do-yeon leading the charge. Just check out the programming notes as written at the Berlinale website:
The official trailer is out for director Jamie Payne’s Luther: The Fallen Sun, as is the official poster both of which you can view below. The film is a return to the very role that landed creator Neil Cross a hit series for BBC with lead actor Idris Elba shepherding the crime procedural that began five seasons ago in summer 2010.
If you enjoyed last year’s Kingmaker and 2017’s The Merciless, then you’ve got some viewing prospects at work with the official trailer now online for Byun Sung-hyun’s new crime drama, Kill Bok-soon. The pic is part of Netflix’s huge wave of content set to arrive from South Korea as the year rolls on, with Byun directing from his own script and actress Jeon Do-yeon (Emergency Declaration) starring in the title role.
The world of classic Kaiju films has more than one big G, and one of them is stomping in to streaming! Gamera -Rebirth – project, first announced in 2022, will be a six episode anime series, exclusive to Netflix worldwide. Five kaiju, plus Gamera, will appear and he’ll have his hands full with taking them down in this new series.
And so comes the end of an era, as the latest teaser announcement is now online for the sixth upcoming season of hit series, Cobra Kai. A continuation of the longstanding success that is The Karate Kid saga, Cobra Kai premiered in 2018 firstly through paid subscription services via YouTube before segueing to Netflix a few seasons later.
A new behind-the-scenes look is online for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, the new upcoming special set to stream on Netflix this year. The special is directed by Charlie Haskell who has helmed nearly a dozen previous incarnations of the show.
Barring the excitement drawn from the initial teaser last month, the official trailer is now online for director Yeon Sang-ho’s newest venture, Jung_E. I haven’t been this excited about South Korean sci-fi on the streamer since Space Sweepers and I can’t wait until this launches on January 20.
It’s been a minute since director Timo Tjahjanto’s newest action comedy, The Big 4, started streaming on Netflix and as full as my plate is, I couldn’t end ’22 without lending my two cents on the pic which otherwise continues the director’s nascent relationship with the streamer since 2018’s The Night Comes For Us.
One of the most exciting shows currently streaming on Netflix that isn’t Squid Game just happens to be the show that did it first: Alice In Borderland. Season two, directed by Shinsuke Sato, is currently running with actors Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya leading the way once more along with a row of both new and returning characters, and some thrilling new challenges to pepper things up a bit, including Face Card challenges which up the ante even more than before.
Celebrated director Yeon Sang-ho (Train To Busan, Psychokinesis, Peninsula) has kept up nicely with his relationship with Netflix, particularly with his ongoing series efforts with Hellbound and the upcoming first season of Parasyte: The Grey based on the manga. The same also goes for his next sci-fi feature effort with Jung_E, starring Kim Hyun-joo in her first movie role since her fourth film appearance in Kim Do-hyuk’s Shin Suk-ki blues before long hauling her steady career in television for various networks, including this month’s SBS premiere of Trolley.
Netflix just released its first look at actor Ryohei Suzuki (Hentai Kamen 1 & 2, Tokyo MER franchise) in the title role of City Hunter. The live-action feature adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo’s hit manga is being directed by Yuichi Sato (Strawberry Nights, The End of the Tiny World), from a script by Tatsuro Mishima.
It’s been about four years since Legendary Entertainment acquired the rights to adapt Kohei Horikoshi’s hit manga, My Hero Academia. The animated series from the studio, Bones, was in its fifth season, while the development of the movie up-ticked a bit with the attachment of filmmaker Shinsuke Sato to direct as of last year.
The official Japan account for Netflix is already hyping up live-tweet viewing parties for fans of the hit series, Alice In Borderland, which you’re totally invited to check out on your own terms, but do it quick. Season two is en route for later this month and the official trailer is finally here to show us all that’s in store for the seemingly neverending game of death.
Netflix subscribers are only days away from the launch of Ng Yuen-Fai’s hit sci-fi action adventure thriller, Warriors Of Future, and its star is now on record teasing a prequel currently in the works. The film, which is set in a future dystopia where Hong Kong’s military forces uncover a conspiracy in the wake of mankind’s increasing devastation at the hands of alien plant life ravaging Earth, became a blockbuster hit in Hong Kong as of its August release, after seven years of extensive development and subsequent production with Louis Koo starring, as well as producing the pic out of his One Cool Film banner.
Salma Hayek Pinault is teaming up with Anne Hathaway for Seesaw Monster over at Netflix. The streamer announced on Tuesday that it acquired the rights to the book penned by Kotaro Isaka, the man behind the original work that inspired David Leitch’s Bullet Train adaptation over at Sony this summer.
Netflix is further entrenching itself with some of Japan’s top creatives to bring stories to life with TBS Holdings Inc.’s live-action production brand, THE SEVEN, whose roster includes none other than Akira Morii who is a key name behind the production of several upcoming shows.
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