{"id":97633,"date":"2017-06-26T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=97633"},"modified":"2017-06-26T11:19:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T10:19:04","slug":"okja-featurette-go-behind-the-scenes-with-director-bong-joon-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/okja-featurette-go-behind-the-scenes-with-director-bong-joon-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Okja featurette: go behind the scenes with director Bong Joon-ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fpoX2VjqSQQ\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read the synopsis for\u00a0<em><strong>Okja\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>here:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">For 10 idyllic years, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja\u2014a massive animal and an even bigger friend\u2014at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when a family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where image obsessed and self-promoting CEO Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton) has big plans for Mija\u2019s dearest friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission, but her already daunting journey quickly becomes more complicated when she crosses paths with disparate groups of capitalists, demonstrators and consumers, each battling to control the fate of Okja\u2026while all Mija wants to do is bring her friend home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Deftly blending genres, humor, poignancy and drama, Bong Joon Ho (<i><strong>Snowpiercer<\/strong>, <strong>The Host<\/strong><\/i>) begins with the gentlest of premises\u2014the bond between man and animal\u2014and ultimately creates a distinct and layered vision of the world that addresses the animal inside us all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><\/strong>The film stars\u00a0Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, An Seo Hyun, Byun Heebong, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Yoon Je Moon, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Devon Bostick, Woo Shik Choi, Giancarlo Esposito and Jake Gyllenhaal. It&#8217;s written and directed by Bong Joon-ho.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><em><strong>Okja<\/strong><\/em><strong> is available to stream on Netflix in all territories from 28 June. Get all the latest fantasy news <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.kelsey.co.uk\/SCI?utm_source=scifinow&amp;utm_campaign=website&amp;utm_medium=latestissuewidget\">with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Bong and the cast of Okja talk about the animal love story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":97634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","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":[3,207],"tags":[4771],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-26-at-11.13.21.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97633"}],"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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}