Well Go USA acquires U.S. rights to Train to Busan sequel

February 21st 2020, 11:19am

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Yeon Sang Ho's highly-anticipated South Korean zombie sequel to TRAIN TO BUSAN, PENINSULA, has acquired North American theactrical distribution. Well Go USA will handle the release in the states while the sequel is set to debut in South Korea this coming summer.

Via The Hollywood Reporter, the film's distribution rights were also sold by Contents Panda to 14 other countries including the U.K. (Studiocanal), Australia (Purple Rain), and France (ARP SAS). Well Go USA appears very eager to handle the domestic release and jumped at the change go grab the rights for sequel, whose predecessor has become a bit of a cult classic:

"Train to Busan is timeless. Four years after its North American release, it's still one of our top performing titles.Our fans can't get enoughof it, so when we heard about about Peninsula, we knew that not only was this a title that belongs under the Well Go brand, but also a story we wanted to continue to tell."

TRAIN TO BUSAN followed the story of a businessman and father who accompanies his daughter on the titular train to see her mother at the same time that a virus breaks out that turns people into ravenous zombies. One of the zombies gets on the train and it becomes a battle with all on board as the father joins the survivors to fight the dead and protect his daughter.

PENINSULA is being kept a bit under wraps but it is reportedly set four years after the ending of the first film and is being described as "a thought-provoking post-apocalyptic film about people fighting to escape the land ruined by disaster." The distribution company has set a release date in its home country for August 12, 2020, while no plans are currently in place for its international release.

TRAIN TO BUSAN was recommended to me by a friend and I instantly fell in love with it. I really hope a sequel can stand up to the original because it left an impression on me that still resonates. If all the behind the scenes talented is still involved, we should be in good hands.

Are YOU a fan of TRAIN TO BUSAN? Are YOU looking forward to the sequel?