'Peninsula' Director On Releasing the Korean Zombie Hit Amid a Real-Life Pandemic

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'Peninsula' Director On Releasing the Korean Zombie Hit Amid a Real-Life Pandemic
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Korean director Yeon Sang-ho talks about Peninsula, his much-anticipated follow-up to the 2016 zombie hit TrainToBusan, which opens in the U.S. on Friday

Is it fitting or perverse that the world's first post-pandemic theatrical blockbuster should be a movie about a zombie apocalypse spawned by a mysterious virus?Train to Busan

It's certainly an interesting time to release a movie about a virus that turns people into zombies and leaves the world in ruin. Do you think the appeal ofhas changed in some way for the audience given what's happening around them in the real world? In Korea, long before the coronavirus outbreak, we have been coping with what we call the fine dust problem. . My daughter is six years old and she's been wearing a mast to daycare and kindergarten for most of her life. But I wouldn't say she feels that it's too uncomfortable, because that's the way it has always been for her. It's more jarring and uncomfortable for adults like us who know of the world before these things happened.

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