‘Thunderbolts’: ‘Beef’ Creator Lee Sun Jin Joins Upcoming MCU Film As Writer, Reuniting With Star Steven Yeun & Director Jake Schreier

Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Alison Herman is Variety’s new TV critic, joining chief TV critic Daniel D’Addario. In the role, Herman will be a key voice in television criticism, writing reviews, commentary, appreciations and cover stories across all of Variety’s platforms. She will work with editor-at-large Kate Aurthur, who oversees the publication’s TV criticism and features. Herman was a staff writer at The Ringer from 2016 to 2023, where she covered television and popular culture. During her tenure, she wrote columns on new shows, profiled performers such as John Mulaney and reported the definitive piece on the aesthetics of “Succession.” “TV criticism is one of the bedrocks of Variety, as the No. 1 brand covering the business of entertainment,” co-Editors-in-Chief Cynthia Littleton and Ramin Setoodeh say. “Alison’s deep knowledge of television and pop culture make her the perfect addition to our team.”

Helen Mirren had no clue who she would play in the Paramount+ series 1923 because creator Taylor Sheridan likes to build characters around the actors who are cast to play them.

Tulsa King stars Jay Will, Garrett Hedlund and Max Casella were at Deadline’s Contenders TV event on Sunday to discuss their Paramount+ show and its lead Sylvester Stallone.

The premiere episode of Netflix’s Beef ends with a needle drop of Hoobastank’s “The Reason.” The track plays as Ali Wong’s Amy runs down the street after Steven Yeun’s Danny, who has just posed as a contractor to get inside her home and pay her back after the series’ inciting road rage incident.

Netflix has released the soundtrack for acclaimed series Beef – check it out below.Created by Lee Sung Jin, the thriller series follows Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) and Amy Lau (Ali Wong) whose worlds collide in unexpected ways following a road rage incident.A synopsis reads: “A road rage incident between two strangers – a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur – sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.”Other cast members include David Choe, Young Mazino, Joseph Lee, Patti Yasutake, Maria Bello, Ashley Park, Andrew Santino and Justin H. Min.The series features an original score by Bobby Krlic, known by his stage name The Haxan Cloak.

prime-needle-drop dramedy about two Los Angelenos (Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, surefire contenders for acting awards this season) who escalate into wild antics directed at each other’s livelihoods after exchanging profane tirades and gestures in a parking lot, has been a talking point in pop culture circles since premiering on Netflix on April 6. Critics and audiences alike have been praising the two leads’ outstanding performances, the energetic narrative courtesy of showrunner Lee Sung Jin (a former “Silicon Valley” scribe and producer), and the vibrant representation of Asian-American families.This move, however, does not mean that “Beef” cannot return in some capacity, as many have whispered it could go the route of HBO’s “The White Lotus” and eventually change its status to a drama series.

BreAnna Bell In its third week of availability, “The Night Agent” has moved up yet again, joining Netflix’s Most Popular list at No. 9 with 515.57 million hours viewed. According to Netflix’s math, this means the thriller has raked in 62 million views — Netflix calculates total views by dividing the total hours viewed by runtime, which is 8.19 hours. During the April 3-9 viewing window, the series pulled in 130.48 million hours viewed and remained No. 1 on the English TV List. Ali Wong and Steven Yeun’s “Beef” was a newcomer on this week’s top 10 list, coming in at No. 3 with 34.08 million hours viewed. The dark comedy, which scored a 99% certified fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, managed to rank in the Top 10 in 61 countries following its April 6 premiere date.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor “Beef” has raised the stakes. Variety has learned exclusively that Netflix and the creative teams behind the new dark comic series have chosen to seek Emmy Awards consideration as a limited or anthology series instead of a comedy, where many pundits had assumed it would campaign. Starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, the series dropped on the streaming platform on April 6, garnering positive reviews from critics and audiences. Currently, the show sits at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 92% from audiences. Created by Lee Sung Jin, best known for writing and producing HBO’s “Silicon Valley” (for which he received an Emmy nom for outstanding comedy series in 2015), the darkly comical romp was announced in March 2021 and commissioned as an anthology series for Netflix.

Beef, the new A24 series that's currently the , Ali Wong gives a stunning performance as Amy Lau, a seemingly put-together entrepreneur whose aesthetic lifestyle is the stuff of Pinterest fantasies. That is, until a case of road rage threatens to derail her picture-perfect American dream. In Wong's March 1 , reporter Rebecca Sun writes that Beef creator Lee Sung Jin had initially pictured a different version of the story based on his own real-life experience—one in which Steven Yeun's Danny Cho faced off not with a #GirlBoss but with a white guy. Specifically, “a Stanley Tucci type.” What Lee meant by “” is unexplained in the article, but such is the power of the 62-year-old actor's brand that I can see him now: He is a quiet older gentleman living in Amy's posh Calabasas home, one he built after selling the filming rights to his wildly popular though artistically unfulfilling YA book series.

Rachel Seo Warning: This story contains mild spoilers for “Beef,” available to watch on Netflix now. Lee Sung Jin, the creator and showrunner of Netflix’s “Beef,” first worked with Steven Yeun and Ali Wong on the animated series “Tuca & Bertie.” But their latest collaboration sees the three reunite to craft a Netflix show along an A24 sensibility. “Beef,” which dropped on the streaming service on Apr. 6, traces the intersecting lives of Yeun’s Danny and Wong’s Amy after the two engage in a vitriolic road rage incident that sets both on a collision course to chaos. “Amy and Danny may differ in gender, class and career path, but they share a self-destructive nihilism that each seems to recognize in the other, even if they can’t articulate it,” writes Variety TV critic Alison Herman.

“Skeleton Crew” was unveiled to fans at Star Wars Celebration in London on Friday.The new, original live-action show’s origins actually date back to before Disney+ existed, as “Spider-Man: Homecoming” director Jon Watts pitched the idea to “The Mandalorian” creator (and Happy Hogan actor) Jon Favreau. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said Watts “really got the tone,” which is in the vein of the Amblin movies Kennedy produced for Steven Spielberg.The show is set in the New Republic era, and will follow a group of kids lost in the galaxy trying to find their way home.

Rachel Seo “What the fuck is happening?” That was Steven Yeun’s reaction while shooting the cataclysmic climax of “Beef,” which he leads with Ali Wong. The Netflix and A24 dramedy opens plausibly enough with a road-rage scene between Wong’s Amy, an entrepreneur whose easygoing nature masks secret desires, and Yeun’s Danny, a contractor who goes to extremes to obtain what he wants. But that initial conflict drives both to exact bizarre acts of revenge on each other, revealing the darkest corners of their psyches. The result? Chaos. In one scene, Amy masturbates with a gun; in another, Danny urinates all over her bathroom — and that’s just the beginning. Seeded throughout are quiet explorations of the characters’ anger, loneliness and fear.

Beef on Netflix.Created by Lee Sung Jin, the series follows Danny Cho (Yeun) and Amy Lau (Wong) whose worlds collide in unexpected ways following a road rage incident.A synopsis reads: “A road rage incident between two strangers – a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur – sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.”Other cast members include David Choe, Young Mazino, Joseph Lee, Patti Yasutake, Maria Bello, Ashley Park, Andrew Santino and Justin H. Min.The series spans 10 episodes in total.

Every so often a movie or television show comes along with so many twists and turns that it makes it inherently hard to discuss without revealing important spoilers. In some ways, Lee Sung Jin’s critically acclaimed new dramedy “Beef,” is one of those programs (so, in this regard, is “Dead Ringers” arriving in a few weeks).

Alison Herman We abhor most in others what we already hate in ourselves. So it is that Amy Lau (Ali Wong) and Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) become mortal enemies despite being kindred spirits. The protagonists of the Netflix half-hour “Beef” first meet when both are behind the wheel, navigating the parking lot of a Lowe’s-like home improvement store. Each driver is there for different reasons: Danny is a handyman who works at the Reseda motel his family used to own; Amy owns a houseplant boutique the hardware chain is in talks to acquire. But both react in the exact same way to a minor spat over exiting a spot. Their explosive road rage propels the pair on a chase across the suburban San Fernando Valley, then through 10 episodes of increasingly out-of-hand emotional warfare.

BreAnna Bell Several cast members of Netflix’s “Beef,” including stars Steven Yeun and Young Mazino, teased some of the “gross” scenes they filmed for the dark comedy while walking the carpet at Thursday night’s premiere. According to the official synopsis, the series follows what happens when “a road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.” What comes after that, the cast teases, is a slew of action scenes including car races and a stairwell chase that takes Mazino, Yeun and David Chao up several flights. Mazino shared that he thought his co-star Chao vomited while shooting, though he was too far up the stairs to see. “That was one of those moments where you just black out and hope that it’s over, and then it’s over,” Mazino told Variety. “So, it was fun shooting that.”

Ali Wong and Steven Yeun are hitting the red carpet at the premiere of their new Netflix series!

Thunderbolts” is getting a screenwriter change as Lee Sung Jin, creator of the upcoming Netflix dark comedy series “Beef” is set to pick up the project from “Black Widow” screenwriter Eric Pearson. “Thunderbolts” will see Sung Jin reunite with director Jake Schreier, who directed all six episodes of “Beef.” Set for release in July 2024, “Thunderbolts” has not released a synopsis but will see longtime MCU star Sebastian Stan return as Bucky Barnes, the man once known as The Winter Soldier, as he leads a team of antiheroes and villains from past MCU movies and Disney+ shows on a clandestine government mission.

Ali Wong is opening up about the «big left turn» she had to take for her new Netflix series, . Speaking to ET's Denny Directo at the show's premiere Thursday night, Wong said she was lucky to have a co-star like Steven Yeun to get her through it. «I did but it was really not that bad what we went through,» Wong said of reports that she broke out in hives and cried while filming the show. «I didn't break anything, you know? But it was definitely -- it's a big left turn for me, and I'm really lucky that I had a co-star like Steven who's so warm and so giving, and we've become such good friends.»The stand-up comic continued, «And then Sonny (Lee Sung Jin) too, my God, like, I can't imagine doing all of this with people who you know aren't them.

Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts” is getting a screenwriter change as Lee Sung Jin, creator of the upcoming Netflix dark comedy series “Beef” is set to pick up the project from “Black Widow” screenwriter Eric Pearson. “Thunderbolts” will see Sung Jin reunite with director Jake Schreier, who directed all six episodes of “Beef.” Set for release in July 2024, “Thunderbolts” has not released a synopsis but will see longtime MCU star Sebastian Stan return as Bucky Barnes, the man once known as The Winter Soldier, as he leads a team of antiheroes and villains from past MCU movies and Disney+ shows on a clandestine government mission.