High Box-Office Hopes for 'Train to Busan' Sequel

Published on 2020/07/15 | Source

Yeon Sang-ho's "Peninsula", a sequel to his 2016 zombie flick "Train to Busan", hits theaters on Wednesday.

"Peninsula" is set four years after the first film and tells the story of people struggling to survive in the ruin after the zombies have destroyed the entire country.

With its eerie echoes of the coronavirus epidemic, the film swept the box office in advance ticket sales. Already over 135,000 tickets have been sold, accounting for 80.9 percent of all advance sales as of Tuesday morning, according to the Korean Film Council.

That breaks the record for advance sales this year set by another zombie flick, "#ALIVE", which accounted for 57.5 percent a day ahead of its release last month.

Starring Gang Dong-won and Lee Jung-hyun, "Peninsula" has been invited to the Official Selection at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which was scheduled to take place in May but postponed indefinitely due to the epidemic.

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"Peninsula" is directed by Yeon Sang-ho, and features Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, Lee Re, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-jae, Koo Kyo-hwan. Release date in Korea: 2020/07/15.