Netflix has released a trailer for the Korean sci-fi action thriller JUNG_E, ahead of its arrival on the streamer this January.
Written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho, the film follows an AI researcher Yun Seo-hyun (Kang Soo-youn), as she leads the effort to clone her mother, a legendary mercenary, in an effort to end the decades long war on Earth that seen humans migrate to shelters in space after their world was devastated by climate change.
“With the brain data from Captain Yun Jung-yi, we will create the ultimate A.I. combat warrior.”
Earth has been devastated by drastic climate change, and humankind migrates to new shelters in outer space. The civil war that occurs there continues on for decades, and Yun Jung-yi (Kim Hyun-joo) becomes a legendary mercenary and military strategist with countless victories to her name. But one failed mission puts her in a vegetative state. Kronoid, a military A.I. development company, attempts to create the ultimate combat warrior by cloning her brain.
35 years later, Jung-yi’s daughter Yun Seo-hyun (Kang Soo-youn) participates in this effort as the head researcher of the JUNG_E project. When little progress is made despite numerous cloning and simulation attempts, Kronoid abandons the research to launch another project. Seo-hyun learns of their plans and resolves to save JUNG_E. Thus begins the A.I. combat warrior JUNG_E’s escape from the research lab…
JUNG_E arrives on Netflix on January 20th and features a cast that includes Kang Soo-yeon, Kim Hyun-joo and Ryu Kyung-soo.
