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Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Kelly MacDonald and Bill Nighy are the cast of this Korean-American production.

After struggling against Harvey Weinstein about the montage of ‘Snowpiercer‘, the distributor wanted to make it “more fluid and less violent,” Bong Joon-Ho will have more freedom in his new film shot in English, Okja. And a bigger budget. “This is a fantastic opportunity! Exclaims the director at Hollywood Reporter about the fact that he will be co-produced by Netflix and Plan B (the company of Brad Pitt). I needed more money than Snowpiercer and I had to have complete artistic freedom. Netflix gives me these two conditions. ” A double victory for the director of Memories of Murder and The Host, who had brilliantly passed the “test” his first English-language staging with The Transperceneige two years ago.

The magazine reveals that Netflix will be launched next year in South Korea and that this agreement is the first major project co-financed with the country. About 50 million -8 deplus for Snowpiercer- were granted to the monster movie that brings a cute English cast: Tilda Swinton, Kelly Macdonald, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano and Bill Nighy. Now remains to find a young actress to embody the Okja heroin, a Korean traveling to New York and focusing on an “animal” unusual. Once this is done, Bong Joon-Ho will shoot his film, to the delight of Tilda Swinton, who confessed last month to wait to start this adventure.