Make no mistake, Netflix's next big hit is Okja, the story of a genetically-modified super pig and the girl who loves her. Starring Tilda Swinson, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhal, Giancarlo Esposito, and breakout child actress Seo-Hyun Ahn, the brainchild of Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-Ho is equal parts wonderous and sickening. So sickening, in fact, that during the process of writing it, Bong altogether swore off meat.

"It had to be disturbing," the director said via a translator during a Q&A following the all-guild screening of the film last night at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York. "The essence of the film is seeing your pet dragged into a slaughterhouse."

Without giving too much away, a portion of the film takes place inside a euphemistcally-named "meat plant." While writing the tongue-in cheek meat-industry takedown, Bong and producer Dooho Choi, who also produced Snowpiercer, visited a slaughterhouse in Colorado for research. "There's no smell in documentary clips, but [at the slaughterhouse] it was very overwhelming," Bong said. "I felt it followed me back to Chicago." Directly after the visit, the director says he couldn't eat meat for two months. He finally broke once he returned home. "I flew back to South Korea, and you know, Korea is a BBQ paradise," he said.