Four years ago, horror and zombie lovers were surprised with Zombie Station: Train to Busan – 95%, a film about the beginning of a zombie apocalypse in South Korea full of action, suspense, drama and emotion, ingredients that usually do not accompany films of this type from Hollywood. Four years later the sequel was released, Zombie Station 2: Peninsula – 80%, which also managed to win over critics and the public; now the director Sang-ho Yeon has revealed that he is already working on a new installment of the saga that will explore new lands of the post-apocalyptic world.
You may also like: Critics choose the best zombie movies
Before Zombie Station 2: Peninsula we had an animated prequel to Train to Busan titled Zombie Station: Seoul – 100%. Along the same lines, Yeon will work on an animated prequel to Peninsula, although it is a project that is under development, unlike Seoul, which hit theaters in Korea a month after Train to Busan.
This saga still has a lot to give, as long as the South Korean filmmaker does not lose his way and remembers that the characters and the background of his films are what keep the viewer hooked, more than the zombies in action. In an interview with Polygon, Yeon commented on the following about the Peninsula prequel:
A prequel to Peninsula – We are currently in talks to make an animation about the relationship between Unit 631 and Min-jung. I am hopeful that the story can be expanded further through the less inhibited medium of cartoons.
We also recommend: Zombie Station: Train to Busan, by Yeon Sang-ho, what did the critics say at its premiere?
Before making his directorial debut in live-action with Zombie Station: Train to Busan, Yeon had commissioned two animated feature films, Dwae-ji-ui wang (King of Pigs) (2011) y Saibi (The Fake) (2013), so it is only natural that you feel comfortable telling stories in the animated format.
In the Zombie Station saga, in addition to witnessing the fall of humanity due to a virus that transforms people into meat-hungry monsters, we are facing a necessary social criticism of excessive ambition and indifference to the negative consequences of irresponsible economic development with the environment, especially in Train to Busan, where we are shown two faces of the great businessmen, the one who clings to his selfishness and remains blind in the middle of the apocalypse, and the one who opens his eyes and discovers that he had been wrong and that there were things more valuable than ambition.
Zombie Station 2: Peninsula It takes place a few years after the first movie and tells how the territory formerly occupied by Korea is known as the Peninsula and is infested with zombies. A group of mercenaries must enter the mouth of the wolf to fulfill an extremely dangerous mission.
According to the official Cinépolis and Cinemex sites, Zombie Station 2: Peninsula It will be released in theaters in Mexico soon. This is their official synopsis:
Officially Korea has become a completely isolated country due to a mysterious virus that has turned its inhabitants into zombies. This year, the desperate fight to escape from the abandoned peninsula begins. Jun-seok is an ex-soldier who manages to escape from the Peninsula to Hong Kong and while living as a refugee, ignored by the locals, he accepts a tempting offer from a foreigner who makes him return to the Peninsula. This is how Jun-seok, together with a crew, heads back to the Peninsula, to fulfill a mission. Upon arrival, they discover a group of uninfected survivors living in the peninsula occupied by zombies. Will they be able to survive the disaster?
Don’t leave without reading: Army of the Dead: Zack Snyder to replace actor named stalker with CGI
– .
