The film launches on Netflix worldwide on April 5
Netflix revealed a new teaser trailer and English subtitles for Parasyte: The Gray (Kiseiju: The Gray), the Korean live-action adaptation of Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Parasyte (Kiseiju) manga, on Wednesday.
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The series will premiere worldwide on Netflix on April 5. The series will stream new episodes until June.
Jeon So-nee, Koo Kyo-hwan, and Lee Jung-hyun star in this film adaptation. Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan, Peninsula) is directing the project and is also writing the script with Ryu Yong-jae (Peninsula, Money Heist: Korea-Joint Economic Area).
Netflix also revealed that the film has cast Kwon Hae-hyo and Kim In-kwon, but did not reveal their roles.
The upcoming film is based on the manga but will tell its own new story. Jeon plays Jeong Su-in, who is attacked by the parasite, but “when it fails to take over her brain, she begins to strangely coexist with it.” Koo’s character Seol Kang-woo is chasing the parasite to find his missing sister. Lee plays the leader of The Gray (a special forces team that fights parasites) whose husband is killed by them.
The original manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki was serialized in Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine from 1990-1995. The manga takes place in a world where alien creatures called Parasites arrive on Earth and begin taking over humans by entering through their noses and ears and attaching themselves to their brains. An alien named Migi can only take over the right arm of high school student Shinichi Izumi and cannot control Shinichi completely. Migi and Shinichi learn to coexist, and the two fight the other Parasites, who see humans as nothing more than food.
The manga previously inspired an anime television series adaptation in 2014 and two live-action films in 2014 and 2015.
Source: Netflix’s Twitter account