{"id":80545,"date":"2015-10-07T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T09:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=80545"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:21:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T09:21:38","slug":"bong-joon-hos-monster-movie-okja-gets-awesome-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/bong-joon-hos-monster-movie-okja-gets-awesome-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Bong Joon-Ho&#8217;s monster movie Okja gets awesome cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#x2019;re huge fans of Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho. He&#x2019;s made a brilliant thriller (<strong><em>Memories Of Murder<\/em><\/strong>), a brilliant drama (<strong><em>Mother<\/em><\/strong>), a brilliant monster movie (<strong><em>The Host<\/em><\/strong>), and his English language debut <strong><em>Snowpiercer<\/em><\/strong> was a stunning piece of sci-fi. Now, he&#x2019;s heading back to monster movie territory and he&#x2019;s landed one hell of a cast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/jake-gyllenhaal-paul-dano-tilda-swinton-circling-snowpiercer-directors-monster-movie-okja-exclusive\/\">The Wrap<\/a> reports that Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Kelly MacDonald and Bill Nighy are set to join Tilda Swinton in <strong><em>Okja<\/em><\/strong>. Details are light but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreanfilm.or.kr\/jsp\/news\/features.jsp?mode=FEATURES_VIEW&seq=235&blbdComCd=601013\">Korean Film Biz<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/jake-gyllenhaal-okja-bong-joon-ho\/#more-317574\">SlashFilm<\/a>) stated that the film will &#x201C;center on a rural girl from Korea&#x2019;s Gang-won Province who travels between Korea and the US.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>After the tortured release of <strong><em>Snowpiercer<\/em><\/strong> (are we ever going to get it in the UK?!?) it&#x2019;s great to hear that he&#x2019;s back in production on a new film. And if <strong><em>Okja<\/em><\/strong> is anywhere near as good as <strong><em>The Host<\/em><\/strong>, then we&#x2019;re in for a treat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Host-Blu-ray-Kang-Ho-Song\/dp\/B000UYBP14\/ref=sr_1_3_twi_blu_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1444209511&sr=8-3&keywords=the+host&tag=scifinowmag-21\"> buy The Host on Blu-ray for &#xA3;6.20 at Amazon.co.uk<\/a>. Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3851\/s\/scifinow-issue-111\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&utm_medium=cover&utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowpiercer director lands some great actors for his latest film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":80547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4771],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/The-Host.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}