{"id":515752,"date":"2026-04-06T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515752\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:40:11","slug":"train-to-busan-director-returns-to-zombie-genre-with-star-studded-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515752\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Train to Busan’ director returns to zombie genre with star-studded \u2018Colony’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From left, actors Go Soo, Kim Shin-rok, Shin Hyun-been, director Yeon Sang-ho, actors Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan and Ji Chang-wook pose during a press conference for the upcoming movie “Colony” at a theater in Seoul, Monday. Yonhap<\/p>\n

Director Yeon Sang-ho, best known for the global zombie hit “Train to Busan\u201d (2016), is back with another zombie film, gathering big-name stars in Korean cinema.<\/p>\n

“Zombie films are a great genre for revealing the latent fears of society,” Yeon said during a press conference in Seoul, Monday.<\/p>\n

“Just as ‘Train to Busan’ tried to capture the fears of its time, I hope audiences will see ‘Colony’ as the fear I feel now, 10 years later.”<\/p>\n

“Colony” is set inside a sealed building where survivors trapped by a mysterious infection must fight back against evolving infected beings. The film stars Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Shin Hyun-been, Kim Shin-rok and Go Soo.<\/p>\n

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Actor Jun Ji-hyun speaks during a press conference for her movie “Colony” at a theater in Seoul, Monday. Yonhap<\/p>\n

The film marks Jun\u2019s return to the big screen after more than a decade, following “Assassination” in 2015.<\/p>\n

“I am so excited to be back,” she said with a bright smile. “I have always been a fan of Yeon, and I was happy to join knowing I would work alongside such outstanding actors.”<\/p>\n

Yeon said the wide spectrum she showed in films like “My Sassy Girl” (2001) and “Assassination” appears in a more concentrated form in “Colony,” describing her as an actor who can be sharp, playful and sincere all at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Director Yeon Sang-ho speaks during a press conference for his movie “Colony” at a theater in Seoul, Monday. Yonhap<\/p>\n

Yeon also had warm words for Ji.<\/p>\n

“I wondered whether someone that good-looking was allowed to work that hard,” he said, drawing laughter from reporters. “There is nothing he cannot do, from emotional acting to action. His action in particular is at a jaw-dropping level.”<\/p>\n

The director also revealed that Ji had sent him a text message after a shoot apologizing for not having prepared more, which left a deep impression. “I thought that this actor is really this sincere,” he said.<\/p>\n

Koo, who previously worked with Yeon in “Peninsula\u201d (2020), plays the role of a biology professor in the film.<\/p>\n

“He has his own logic but no certainty,” Koo said of his character.<\/p>\n

Yeon said he hopes to continue working with Koo as his on-screen persona, calling him “a true film lover and a genuine genre fanatic who knows every corner of cinema.”<\/p>\n

Shin plays a biotechnology professor who tries to find the cause of the terror from outside the sealed building. Having been involved with Yeon’s projects such as Netflix movie “Revelations”<\/a> (2025) and “The Ugly” <\/a>(2025), she said “Colony” is her first creature film with the director.<\/p>\n

“I filmed my scenes from outside the building, watching what was happening inside on a monitor. It made me feel helpless, like I was just a spectator who could not do anything,” she said.<\/p>\n

Yeon hinted that the film will keep its balance between intensity and accessibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cColony\u201d is set to hit theaters in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From left, actors Go Soo, Kim Shin-rok, Shin Hyun-been, director Yeon Sang-ho, actors Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-515752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}