Netflix must like working with South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho. With a new season of “Hellbound” on the way and an adaptation of the manga series “Parasyte: The Grey,” another series from Yeon is coming to the streamer. Deadline reports that he’ll start production soon on “The Bequeathed,” a suspense drama about the important Korean tradition of family burial grounds.
The upcoming series stars Kim Yung-joo as Yun Seo-ha, a woman who inherits family land after her uncle passes away. However, she soon finds herself dealing with strange events that bring long-buried family troubles to light. Kim is a regular Yeon collaborator, having worked with the director on “Hellbound,” “Undercover,” and “Watcher.”
“The Bequeathed” also stars Park Hee-soon and Park Byung-eun as policemen and Ryu Kyung-soo as Kim’s half-brother. More casting news for the series will drop soon. As of now, the show doesn’t have a release date, but Netflix will release it globally. Yeon partners up with Wow Point and RedPeter Films for the series, as he did with “Peninsula,” “Another Child,” “Psychokinesis,” and his stateside breakout, 2016’s “Train To Busan.
“Train To Busan” made waves in 2016 after being a big hit as part of the Midnight Screenings section of the Cannes Film Festival that year. The film follows passengers on a high-speed rail train as they try to escape a zombie apocalypse. Yeon released a follow-up to the movie, “Peninsula,” in 2020. The film was supposed to premiere at Cannes that year, but the festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Peninsula” still managed to be a box-office success, but critics cooled on the sequel, finding it inferior to “Train To Busan.”
Yeon looks like he’s found sound footing with Netflix, though, with three series in production at the streamer. So how will “The Bequeathed” measure up? Expect the series to hit Netflix sometime late next year.
