Brad Pitt and Netflix are teaming up for a Bong Joon-ho monster movie: https://t.co/d8pjvrEcSjpic.twitter.com/giekbG6J36
— Indiewire (@indiewire) November 10, 2015- Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-Ho will direct and is described as a "Korean monster movie.""The monster as a "kind spirit" and has said the film is about "a warm friendship between a country girl and a brute with stories."
- Netflix will invest $50 mil. Co-produced by Brad Pitt's production company Plan B
- Cast includes so far: Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald. Main character will be a Korean girl.
- "For 'Okja,' I needed a bigger budget than I had for 'Snowpiercer' and also complete creative freedom. Netflix offered me the two conditions that are difficult to have in hand simultaneously."(lol this shade to Harvey Weinstein)
- Production begins April 2016 in US/Korea
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