Bong Joon-ho Is Ready To Make His Next Horror Movie

The Oscar-winning director describes his "life project" as an action-horror set in the Seoul subway.

Bong Joon-ho, currently on the promo tour for his latest sci-fi feature Mickey 17, is ready to dip his toes once again into horror waters.

In a new interview with MBC Korea, the Oscar-winning filmmaker told host Seon Seok-hee about what could potentially be his next live-action film (following his planned animated drama about sea creatures), a horror action movie set in the subway of Seoul, South Korea. 

Back in 2020, following his Oscar win for the domestic thriller Parasite, Bong told press that he had already started work on his two next features, one of which being a “Korean film is located in Seoul and has unique elements of horror and action,” and on a smaller scale akin to Parasite or his 2009 crime thriller Mother. 

In the new interview, he goes on to expand a little more on the project:

That's kind of like my life project. I've been thinking about it since 2001.

Host Seon then asks Bong to describe the first minute and a half of the as-of-now untitled horror, to which he replies.

We're running through the underground section of the subway. In the car next to us, people wearing similar clothes start to come over to our side. We're running. A lot of people start to come over to our side.

Bong's description doesn't give us a huge amount to go off here, but as anyone who has seen Yeon Sang-ho's Train to Busan will know, a Korean subway station full of rushing people makes for very good horror fodder.

While Bong's work is known for blending genre, his most traditional horror film remains the 2006 monster movie The Host, which stars Song Kang-ho, Go Ah-sung and Bae Doona as members of a family torn apart by a giant mutated beast emerging from the Han River.

Needless to say, we'll be watching Bong's next project very, very closely, and will bring you updates when we get them.