Train to Busan U.S. Remake Lines Up VHS 2 Director Timo Tjahjanto
Train to Busan U.S. Remake Lines Up VHS 2 Director Timo Tjahjanto
V/H/S/2 and The Night Comes for Us director Timo Tjahjanto jumps aboard the Train to Busan remake.
Train to Busan has finally begun to pick up some speed, with
V/H/S/2 director Timo Tjahjanto being brought aboard to helm the project. The
Train to Busan Remake is being produced by Atomic Monster, which is headed up by modern horror movie maestro, James Wan, the man behind such frightening hits as
Saw,
The Conjuring.
This summer will mark five years since
Train to Busan hit theaters in South Korea and put a novel spin on the zombie genre. In that timeframe, the film has also gained a strong international fanbase, which makes the idea of an American remake seem completely unnecessary. Regardless, that’s exactly what New Line is aiming to do. Deadline brings word that the studio is eyeing director Timo Tjahjanto to update the movie for U.S. audiences.
The original film had its world premiere at Cannes in 2016 before opening in South Korea later that year. It centered on a divorced workaholic father tasked with bringing his daughter to her mother’s house in Busan. However, their train ride to the city coincides with the outbreak of a zombie plague erupting around the country. The film was directed by Yeon Sang-ho. Additionally, it featured a handful of South Korean actors who have since moved on to bigger and better projects. The cast included Choi Woo-shik, who played a major role in 2019’
Timo Tjahjanto in talks to helm New Line’s Train to Busan remake
It has been more than two years since New Line Cinema successfully won the rights to the American remake of 2016’s hit South Korean zombie film
Train to Busan in a competitive bidding war against major studios, and now it looks like the project is finally making some progress. According to Deadline, acclaimed Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto (
May the Devil Take You,
The Night Comes for Us) is currently in negotiations to direct producer James Wan’s long-in-development
Train to Busan remake.
Train to Busan was directed by Yeon Sang-ho. It follows the story of a workaholic businessman and father who accompanies his doe-eyed daughter on the titular train ride to see her mother at the very same time that a malevolent virus breaks out, turning the populace into ravenous, milk-eyed ghouls. When one of those blood-sucking zombies gets on the train, Hell is unleashed and the father must team up with a gaggle
By Melanie Goodfellow2020-12-22T15:53:00+00:00
As part of
Screen’s Perspectives on 2020 series, Gaumont CEO Sidonie Dumas explains how she juggled production and release schedules at the French powerhouse in the face of two national lockdowns.
Source: Subject’s own
Sidonie Dumas
Sidonie Dumas is CEO of France’s oldest film company Gaumont. Under her leadership, it quit the exhibition sector in 2017 to focus on film and TV production as well as theatrical distribution at home. The company was still in the midst of this transition when the pandemic struck. It delivered a double blow as film and TV shoots shut down and cinemas closed for 14 weeks in the first lockdown, and then from October 30 until at least January 7, 2021, amid a second wave of the coronavirus.
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