Director Yeon Sang-ho known for his master horror works Train to Busan and Netflix Hellbound series, has come out with an upcoming sci-fi series Parasyte: The Grey.
The horror series set to release on Netflix on April 5, 2024, is an adaptation of a Japanese manga comic Parasyte written by Hitoshi Iwaaki and published by Kodansha. It’s the story of unidentified parasites taking over their human hosts with one intent – “to parasitize the human race.” Hence, they look like humans, think like humans and at like humans, but they are not humans. It is left to humanity to rise and combat the growing threat.
The series stars Jeon So-nee as Su-in, a woman grappling with her new reality of co-existing with parasites, and relentless Team Grey, led by Lee Jung-hyun (as Jun-kyung) dedicated to fighting the unidentified parasites, whilst Koo Kyo-hwan (who plays Kang-woo) hunted by a parasite, searches for his missing sibling amidst the chaos.
Yeon Sang-ho and Ryu Yong-jae co-wrote the adaptation with Climax Studio and WOW POINT behind the production.
Sang-ho’s latest series comes off his 2021 hit series Hellbound based off the Korean Webtoon ‘Hell’ which surpassed Squid Games as the most watched series for a day. It follows a group of supernatural beings that condemns people to hell. Hellbound script was developed by Sang-ho with illustrator Choi Gyu-seok (Songgot) and adapted into a TV Drama in 2015. The series launched on Netflix in November 2021, with the announcement of a second season made in 2023.