The director of "Parasites" goes to animation cinema

Bong Joon Ho put his name on the map of the Western film industry in 2019 thanks to Parasites and his four Oscars (Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, International Film). However, the haunting work of the South Korean was not a discovery for moviegoers close to his work. The director of Parasites has in his filmography such notable works as Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer and Okja. Picking his projects carefully and timing his steps well, Joon Ho seems in no rush to stay close to the media spotlight with rushed projects or commissions from Hollywood majors, so tempting with their blank checks. From Mother to Snowpiercer four years passed and from the latter to Okja another four. This care of those who do only what they consider relevant to narrate at all times, explains very well the announcement of what will be their next project, after the film shot in English that he recently finished writing. Joon Ho will turn to animation for the first time to delve into the underwater depths. This is how the news confirmed the Korean visual effects studio 4th Creative Party for ScreenDaily: “The animation will deal with the drama that arises between the creatures of the deep sea and the beings humans”. The director of Parasites has previously collaborated with the studio with The Host and Okja and it is a script that he has been working on since 2018. When he confirmed last February that he had finished it, he mentioned how difficult it had been to work on both at the same time, “it feels like I’m splitting my brain in the left and right half by writing these two scripts.”At the 2020 Oscars, he mentioned behind the scenes that of the two projects he was working on, one was an action horror story set in Seoul, now understood as the confirmed animated film. The other project shot in English was described by Joon Ho as “a dramatic film based on a real event that happened in 2016”, adding that the story would take place halfway between the United Kingdom and the United States. Little more is known about this incursion In animation and film shot in English, although as if these two projects were little for the South Korean, at the same time he worked during the pandemic with Adam McKay on the HBO series that will reproduce the world of Parasites.