He shattered the one-inch wall (that little strip of subtitles Hollywood has always seemed so averse to) when Parasite became the first ever foreign-language winner of the best picture Oscar in 2020.
So it was no surprise that Warner Bros were happy to throw a big, juicy $100m-plus budget at South Korean director Bong Joon Ho for his next project (his third English-language feature). Or that an enviable squadron of talent was queueing up to get on board.
