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Based on the novel by Kōtarō Isaka, Goodbye Earth is the extremely anticipated Netflix Original Okay-drama sci-fi collection due out globally on April twenty sixth, 2024.
Goodbye Earth is an upcoming South Korean Netflix Original dystopian drama directed by Kim Jin-Min and written by screenwriter Jung Sung Joo. It’s the primary time since 2015 that Jung Sung Joo had written a screenplay when she wrote the drama Heard It Through the Grapevine. She can be chargeable for writing the dramas Secret Love Affair, Roses and Bean Sprout, and A Wife’s Credentials.
The novel the collection adapts The Fool At the End of the World
by Kōtarō Isaka. Other works from Isaka which were tailored from the creator embody the Brat Pitt film Bullet Train. Netflix can be adapting one other novel from Kōtarō Isaka, with information popping out in November 2022 that Anne Hathaway and Selma Hayek Pinault have been on board to star in a characteristic movie, Seesaw Monster.
What are you able to anticipate from the brand new collection? Here’s a translated full synopsis courtesy of Netflix:
“After experiences that an asteroid will collide with Earth, and the Korean Peninsula will probably be within the collision zone, martial legislation is said in Korea, and chaos ensues. The battle between those that imagine within the asteroid collision and those that doubt it, criminals escaping from jail, the instigation of charlatans, and the frenzy for asylum in protected zones result in a world plunged into dysfunction. In this chaotic world, a center faculty instructor, ‘Sekyung’ (performed by Ahn Eun-jin), harbors an indelible trauma after the loss of life of a pupil who was kidnapped throughout a protest.
200 days earlier than the expected apocalypse, but folks proceed to reside their lives.
‘Sekyung’, her pals, and the folks of Ungcheon metropolis battle for the sake of the kids’s tomorrow, even amidst such adversity…
Today and tomorrow, till the tip, we’re ready for the apocalypse collectively.”
When is Goodbye Earth coming to Netflix?
Originally anticipated to land someday in late 2023, we now know the collection will drop onto the service globally on April twenty sixth, 2024, at 8 AM GMT.
Season 1 of the present will include 12 episodes in whole.
Poster for Goodbye Earth – Picture: Netflix
The present was first introduced in January 2022, and casting and filming started across the summer time.
On September fifth, 2022, a Tweet from a Okay-Drama fan account posted a screenshot from Instagram revealing that filming had ended on Goodbye Earth.
Who are the solid members of Goodbye Earth?
Ahn Eun Jin will probably be recognizable to some Netflix subscribers because the actress beforehand starred in a supporting function in Hospital Playlist as Chu Min Ha, and a minor function in each seasons of Kingdom because the spouse of Moo Young, the non-public guard of the Crown Prince.
Ahn Eun Jin in Hospital Playlist (left) and Kingdom (proper)
Yoo Ah-in was initially on account of star within the collection, and whereas he did movie all through manufacturing, it’s been reported that he was subsequently edited out in post-production. The controversial resolution to do that was as a result of he was arrested on drug fees in March 2023. That stated, Netflix nonetheless continues to listing the actor within the media heart for the present.
The actor made his first look in a drama in 4 years when he starred as Jung Jin Soo in Hellbound. The actor’s newest undertaking may even be with Netflix as he stars in Goodbye Earth within the function of Ha Yoon Sang.
Yoo Ah-In as Jung Jin Soo in Hellbound (proper)
Jeon Sung Woo beforehand starred within the Korean adaptation of Designated Survivor, however his function as Priest Damiano will probably be his first on Netflix in nearly 4 years.
Jeon Sung Woo in Designated Survivor: 60 Days (proper)
Kim Yoon Hye has additionally solely starred in a single Netflix Original when she beforehand had a supporting function within the extremely common Vincenzo as Seo Mi Ro.
Kim Yoon Hye in Vincenzo (proper)
Below are the confirmed solid members up to now for Goodbye Earth:
| Role | Cast Member |
|---|---|
| Jin Se Kyung | Ahn Eun Jin |
| Priest Damiano / Woo Sung Jae | Jeon Sung Woo |
| Kang In Ah | Kim Yoon Hye |
| TBA | Seo Ye Hwa |
This article will probably be up to date proper by means of to the discharge of the present as we’re nonetheless ready on a trailer and different belongings.
Note: Contains contributions from Kasey Moore.
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