Actor Steven Yeun is set to reunite with Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho for the director’s latest feature project. Yoon, who worked with Bong in the 2017 film “Okja,” has joined the cast of the filmmaker’s upcoming sci-fi thriller set at Warner Bros., according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In the eponymous project, the 38-year-old actor will appear alongside Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette. The film is based on author Edward Ashton’s novel “Mickey 7”, which was published in February, and focuses on Mickey 7, on an expedition to colonize the ice globe Niflheim.
This expendable worker takes on a very risky job for someone else, and when he dies, he is resurrected as a clone with most of his memory. When Mickey 7 is presumed dead, he returns to the base of the mission only to find that a new clone, Mickey 8, has taken his place, according to the film’s official description. Bong will produce the project through his production banner Offscreen with Dooho Choi for the Kate Street Picture Company and Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B, which produced “Okja”.
Yeun, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari”, will next appear in Jordan Peele’s thriller “Nope”, starring alongside Keke Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya. will also be seen in Netflix Comedy Beef with Ali Wong.
Bong Joon-ho became the first Korean director to win an Oscar for Parasite, besting directorial legends such as Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. Parasite won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, and Best Original Screenplay.
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