Primarily based on the novel by Kōtarō Isaka, Goodbye Earth is the extremely anticipated Netflix Unique Okay-drama sci-fi sequence due out globally on April twenty sixth, 2024.
Goodbye Earth is an upcoming South Korean Netflix Unique 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 By way of the Grapevine. She can be liable for writing the dramas Secret Love Affair, Roses and Bean Sprout, and A Spouse’s Credentials.
The novel the sequence adapts The Idiot On the Finish of the World by Kōtarō Isaka. Different works from Isaka which were tailored from the creator embody the Brat Pitt film Bullet Prepare. Netflix can be adapting one other novel from Kōtarō Isaka, with information popping out in November 2022 that Anne Hathaway and Selma Hayek Pinault had been on board to star in a function movie, Seesaw Monster.
What are you able to anticipate from the brand new sequence? Right here’s a translated full synopsis courtesy of Netflix:
“After experiences that an asteroid will collide with Earth, and the Korean Peninsula shall be within the collision zone, martial regulation 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 push for asylum in secure zones result in a world plunged into dysfunction. On this chaotic world, a center faculty trainer, ‘Sekyung’ (performed by Ahn Eun-jin), harbors an indelible trauma after the demise of a pupil who was kidnapped throughout a protest.
200 days earlier than the anticipated apocalypse, but individuals proceed to reside their lives.
‘Sekyung’, her associates, and the individuals of Ungcheon metropolis wrestle for the sake of the youngsters’s tomorrow, even amidst such adversity…
Right now and tomorrow, till the tip, we’re ready for the apocalypse collectively.”
When is Goodbye Earth coming to Netflix?
Initially anticipated to land someday in late 2023, we now know the sequence will drop onto the service globally on April twenty sixth, 2024, at 8 AM GMT.
Season 1 of the present will encompass 12 episodes in whole.
Poster for Goodbye Earth – Image: Netflix
The present was first introduced in January 2022, and casting and filming started across the summer season.
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’re the forged members of Goodbye Earth?
Ahn Eun Jin shall 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 Younger, the non-public guard of the Crown Prince.
Ahn Eun Jin in Hospital Playlist (left) and Kingdom (proper)
Yoo Ah-in was initially resulting from star within the sequence, 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 expenses in March 2023. That mentioned, Netflix nonetheless continues to record 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 venture may also 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 shall be his first on Netflix in virtually 4 years.
Jeon Sung Woo in Designated Survivor: 60 Days (proper)
Kim Yoon Hye has additionally solely starred in a single Netflix Unique when she beforehand had a supporting function within the extremely fashionable Vincenzo as Website positioning Mi Ro.
Kim Yoon Hye in Vincenzo (proper)
Under are the confirmed forged members thus far for Goodbye Earth:
Function
Solid Member
Jin Se Kyung
Ahn Eun Jin
Priest Damiano / Woo Sung Jae
Jeon Sung Woo
Kang In Ah
Kim Yoon Hye
TBA
Website positioning Ye Hwa
This text shall be up to date proper by to the discharge of the present as we’re nonetheless ready on a trailer and different property.
Word: Accommodates contributions from Kasey Moore.
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