PARASITE Director Bong Joon-ho Producing an Immigration Drama SEA FOG
Parasite director Bong Joon-ho is set to produce an immigration drama titled Sea Fog for Participant Media. The film is inspired by a true story and based on the 2014 Korean film Haemoo, “which follows a fishing-boat crew on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of undocumented immigrants from China to Korea.”
Sea Fog will be written and directed by Matt Palmer, who helmed Calibre, and it’s based on a previous draft by Oren Moverman. Joon-ho said in a statement:
“Participant makes films that explore the realities of our time, and director Matt Palmer reveals people’s true natures by putting them in extreme situations as he did in the superb crime thriller ‘Calibre.’ I can’t contain my excitement and anticipation to collaborate with this team on the newborn ‘Sea Fog.'”
Palmer added:
“I’m absolutely thrilled to be working with one of modern cinema’s most singular and visionary talents, Bong Joon Ho, and with Participant, whose incredible track record in producing deeply inspiring, socially committed cinema for mainstream audiences is unapparelled. These are dream partners to be teaming up with on a project with such unique potential to deliver both nerve-shredding tension and an urgent social message.”
Bong Joon-ho is an incredibly talented filmmaker. The guy is a master of his craft and he proved it when he made history at the Oscars this year with Parasite, which was the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
With Joon-ho’s involvement with SeasFog and his excitement for it, I’m sure that it will turn out to be a great movie.
Source: Variety