Netflix announces the Korean live-action adaptation of Kiseiju - The Unwanted Guest

Netflix announces the Korean live-action adaptation of Kiseiju - The Unwanted Guest

The Parasyte manga, known in Italy as Kiseiju - The unwanted guest, written and drawn by Hitoshi Iwaaki and published by Magic Press Edizioni, will be adapted into a Korean live-action, entitled Kiseiju: The Gray. Netflix has> announced that it will stream the new action k-drama worldwide. Let's see all the details.

Netflix announces the Korean live-action adaptation of Kiseiju - The Unwanted Guest

According to reports from Deadline, the live-action adaptation will be based on the manga, but will tell a new story. Directing the project Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan, Peninsula), who will also write the scripts together with Ryu Yong-jae (Peninsula, Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area).

The three actors protagonists are Jeon So-nee (left in the image above), Koo Kyo-hwan (center) and Lee Jung-hyun (right) who play respectively Jeong Su-in, Seol Kang-woo and the leader of The Gray .




Jeon Soo-in is a woman who is attacked by a parasite, with which she somehow manages to coexist without losing control of herself. Solu Gang-woo, on the other hand, is engaged in the search for her missing sister, while Choi Jun-kyung becomes the leader of the special unit "The Gray", which fights the very parasites that killed her husband.

About Parasyte

Parasyte is a horror manga written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki and published in Morning Open Zōkan magazine before and after in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon from 1988 to 1995. The chapters of the manga were collected in a total of ten tankōbon volumes, published between July 20, 1990 and March 15, 1995 while the serialization was still in progress. Parasyte won the Kodansha Manga Award for the general category in 1993 and the Seiun Award for the best manga in 1996.

In Italy, the manga was first published by Phoenix, who translated the first three volumes between 1998 and 2000 and then the rights were transferred to Magic Press Edizioni, which continued the publication of the volumes from the fourth in 2002 and then stopped the series at the eighth in 2004

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