Director Yeon Sang-ho — the filmmaker behind beloved Train To Busan — has signed with WME in all areas.
After breaking out with his first live-action film, the 2016 zomie thriller Busan (the film grossed over $98 million on an $8 million budget), Yeon has become one of Korea’s most prolific filmmakers. The Hollywood Reporter review of Busan reads: “As one might expect from a director who started out as a visual artist, the film establishes spatial relationships exceptionally well, so that it’s always clear where characters are in relation to each other. If the secret aim of Train to Busan was to leave a calling card, this will certainly impress backers with bigger budgets.”
Yeon has since directed the television series Hellbound and the feature Jung-E, both for Netflix, as well as Busan sequel Peninsula, which was an official selection at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
The filmmaker also produces via his production company WOWPOINT. The Seoul-based outfit, led by Yoomin Hailey Yang, was behind popular Netflix Korean mystery thriller The Bequeathed and manga adaptation Parasyte: The Grey.
Next up for Yeon is Revelations, the Alfonso Cuarón executive produced feature based on Yeon’s own IP about a pastor and a detective who team up for a missing persons case that will hit Netflix in March. Yeon is also attached to write and direct English-language action horror film The 35th for TriStar Pictures.
