‘Peninsula’ Director Is Already Working On The Next (Animated) ‘Train To Busan’ Sequel
By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2020 11:30 am EST
Yeon is already working on an animated prequel to Peninsula, his highly anticipated follow-up to 2016’s smash hit Train to Busan, the filmmaker revealed to Polygon. Yeon said:
“A prequel to Peninsula: we are currently in talks about making a cartoon about the relationship between Unit 631 and Min-jung. I am hopeful that the story can be further expanded upon through the less inhibited cartoon medium.”
Both Peninsula and Train to Busan are distinctive because they take place outside of the parameters of the typical zombie outbreak movie — for Peninsula, it’s after the zombie apocalypse has devastated Korea, for Train to Busan, it’s on a small, claustrophobic space that gets wind of the outbreak too late. The image of a post-apocalyptic backdrop specifically appealed to Yeon, who got the idea while researching Train to Busan by touring abandoned train stations.
“After Train to Busan, I talked a lot about a post-apocalyptic backdrop with the staff that accompanied me to the various locations,” Yeon said. “So, I thought if I were to make a sequel to Train to Busan, I wanted to portray a devastated Korea in a post-apocalyptic movie.”
From that idea came the image of “a young child driving a dump truck in the ruined Korea,” which led to Peninsula. But with the prequel, Yeon will get to further explore that post-apocalyptic landscape, hopefully to better success than Seoul Station.
