One thing Bong Joon-ho is gonna do is work. Even when it seems like the Oscar-winning filmmaker is on hiatus or at rest, Director Bong is dedicating some part of his being to his love of film. Sometimes that extends to his daily routine, which — as he revealed in a 2017 masterclass — typically starts with him watching a movie. Sometimes it may mean working on multiple films at once, as his latest pivot implies.
Six years passed between the Academy Award-sweeping Parasite and Bong’s latest English-language film, Mickey 17, but the filmmaker didn’t spend that time idly. Since 2019, Bong has been quietly developing an animated film alongside screenwriter Jason Yu (the director of the 2023 psych-thriller Sleep) and longtime producing partner Seo Woo-sik. V8 Pistons Pictures has unveiled a first look at the upcoming project, which will see Bong returning to the anti-industrialist themes he’s best known for.
