Disney+ Launches Asia Originals Slate, Headed By ‘Moving’, BTS docu-series & ‘Tokyo Revengers’
10.07.2023 - 02:01
/ deadline.com
Disney+ has announced a slate of Asia originals for the second half of 2023, including Korean dramas Moving and The Worst Of Evil and the latest project in its collaboration with Hybe, BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star.
The packed slate of originals also includes Japanese anime Tokyo Revengers: Teknik Arc, part of Disney’s collaboration with publishing house Kodansha, and hybrid live-action and anime series Dragons Of Wonderhatch.
Set to premiere on August 9, Korean drama Moving is based on Kangfull’s webtoon about a group of superpowered individuals on the run from government forces and a mysterious assassin. Ryu Seungryong, Han Hyojoo and Zo Insung head the cast.
Ji Changwook, Squid Game actor Wi Hajun and Lim Semi star in crime drama The Worst Of Evil, set in 1990s Seoul, where a rural police officer is recruited to help bring down a trafficking gang pushing a potent new drug.
Docu-series BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star charts the K-pop megastars’ journey over the past nine years, based on “unprecedented access to a vast library of music and footage,” according to a Disney statement.
Disney previously worked with Hybe on a BTS concert film, BTS: Permission To Dance, and reality travel show, In The Soop: Friendcation. The new series is described as featuring the “daily lives, thoughts and plans of BTS members, as they prepare for their second chapter”.
Other Korean shows on the Disney+ slate include crime drama Vigilante; comedy action series Han River Police; and music-themed drama Soundtrack #2, a sequel to last year’s Soundtrack #1, again directed by Kim Heewon but with a new storyline starring Keum Saerok and Steve Sanghyun Noh.
Japanese drama Dragons Of Wonderhatch stars Sena Nakajima, Daiken Okudaira and