Twisted South Korean dystopian thriller Cut price will display screen on Paramount+ in October.
The six half sequence centres round organ trafficking – earlier than an earthquake strikes.
The present is partially an adaptation of director Lee Chung-hyun’s award-winning quick movie of the identical title launched in 2015, though the earthquake story-line is a brand new plot addition.
In Cut price, males are lured to a distant lodge underneath the guise of sexual encounters solely to be caught in a trafficking ring the place their organs are auctioned off to the very best bidder. After a catastrophic earthquake, the victims, traffickers and consumers all are trapped contained in the crumbling constructing. Lower off from the skin world, they have to combat to outlive the aftermath at any price.
Cut price stars actors Jin Solar-kyu (Excessive Job), Jun Jong-seo (Cash Heist: Korea) and Chang Ryul (My Identify) and is an adaptation of director Lee Chung-hyun’s award-winning quick movie of the identical title that was launched in 2015. Director and author Jeon Woo-sung, who was a part of the manufacturing workforce of the unique quick movie, picked up the story and developed it right into a six-part sequence. The sequence is co-written by Choi Byeong-yun and Kwak Jae-min and govt produced by showrunner and creator Byun Seungmin and Bang Jin Ho.
Cut price was awarded the Critics’ Alternative Award at Seriencamp Pageant in Cologne in June and received Greatest Screenplay at Canneseries Pageant earlier this 12 months. Cut price is also an official 2023 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant choice. Cut price was developed by Paramount+ and TVING by a partnership between Paramount and the Korean leisure powerhouse CJ ENM.
All six episodes Thursday, 5 October on Paramount+.
Grownup themes, violence.
