{"id":632673,"date":"2026-09-22T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632673\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:58:12","slug":"kims-convenience-star-andrew-phung-joins-quentin-lee-zombie-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632673\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Kim’s Convenience’ Star Andrew Phung Joins Quentin Lee Zombie Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAndrew Phung<\/a>, an eight-time Canadian Screen Award winner known for \u201cKim\u2019s Convenience\u201d and \u201cRun the Burbs,\u201d is boarding Quentin Lee<\/a>\u2018s horror-comedy \u201cCurse of Undead<\/a>\u201d as star and producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tPhung will play protagonist Pancho Dang in the Canada-Philippines co-production, which follows a struggling Canadian filmmaker battling a zombie outbreak unleashed by a Filipino sorcerer, while uncovering a curse tied to the documentary meant to launch his career. The screenplay, based on an original story by Lee, was written by Lee and New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix, whose novels include \u201cMy Best Friend\u2019s Exorcism,\u201d adapted into a feature by Amazon Studios, and \u201cHow to Sell a Haunted House.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPhung and Lee met at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards, where a comedy special co-produced by Lee and Cindy Au Yeung, \u201cComedy Invasion,\u201d took home the top prize in its category. When Lee and Au Yeung reworked \u201cCurse of Undead\u201d into a Canada-Philippines co-production, Lee brought the project to Phung, who signed on after connecting with the screenplay.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is the type of movie I\u2019ve always wanted to make. It\u2019s big, it\u2019s bold, it\u2019s a zombie horror movie like you\u2019ve never seen before. The script and story just jump off the page. I can\u2019t wait to help Quentin and his team bring this project to life,\u201d said Phung.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I first met Andrew at the Canadian Screen Awards, I was already a huge admirer of his comic brilliance,\u201d said Lee. \u201cWhen Cindy and I decided to reimagine \u2018Curse of Undead\u2019 as a Canada\u2013Philippines co-production, Andrew immediately came to mind as our Pancho. I was thrilled that he loved the screenplay and wanted to join us \u2013 not only as our leading man, but also as a producer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRoger Garcia, former executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Asian Film Awards Academy, serves as executive producer and began developing the screenplay with Lee more than a decade ago. Lee, Au Yeung and Phung will finance and produce through British Columbia-based Margin Films Ltd., with production targeted for winter 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tLee is also preparing to launch the third season of \u201cComedy InvAsian,\u201d the Asian American stand-up comedy series he created with Koji Steven Sakai, on Oct. 1 via AAM.tv, Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla and Tubi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Phung, an eight-time Canadian Screen Award winner known for \u201cKim\u2019s Convenience\u201d and \u201cRun the Burbs,\u201d is boarding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[268608,268609,93,61,60,268610,270,268611],"class_list":["post-632673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-andrew-phung","tag-curse-of-undead","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kims-convenience","tag-movies","tag-quentin-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}