Steven Yeun teaming with Bong Joon-ho for an upcoming sci-fi film

Actor Steven Yeun is good to go to show up in Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho’s forthcoming science fiction thriller at Warner Bros. The project reunites them following a long time since the Netflix flick Okja (2017). The film additionally stars Robert Pattinson.

It is Bong’s most memorable film since the 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite, which turned into the main non-English film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Here’s more on Steven Yeun teaming with Bong Joon Ho

About the film

The forthcoming flick depends on Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey7, published in 1918 by St. Martin, a Macmillan engrave. As per Macmillan’s official portrayal, the novel portrays the journey of Mickey7, who“is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal—the crew turns to Mickey.”

It further adds, “After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.”

Be that as it may, given Bong’s set of history with screen-to-screen transformations, the film can be anticipated to be very not the same as the novel. The project is untitled and no data about the release date is accessible yet.

Cast and team

Other than Yeun and Pattinson, the film likewise stars Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, and Toni Collette.

Bong will compose and direct the flick. He will likewise be producing it for his creation house Offscreen, with Dooho Choi of Kate Street Picture Company, and Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Brad Pitt’s creation house Plan B. Every one of them will rejoin after Okja.

Steven Yeun’s forthcoming projects

The South Korean actor delivered a stellar performance in the A24 movie Minari (2020). The film was nominated for the Best Picture Award at the Oscars and acquired Yeun’s numerous accolades and high basic acclaim. He was likewise nominated for the Academy Award, SAG, Critics Choice, and Independent Spirt Award for his phenomenal performance.

Yeun’s impending film Nope, which additionally stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, is good to go to stir things up around town on 22 July 2022. Another Netflix and A24 project named Beef is likewise ready to go. Yeun will be seen opposite Ali Wong in this comedy series.

Outside the science fiction genre, Yeun will join Ali Wong in Netflix and A24’s series Beef, which follows two individuals whose lives are “slowly consumed” by an incident of road rage.