First teaser trailer for Netflix movie 'Okja' sees Bong Joon-Ho's monster movie come to life

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By Darian Scalamoni

            Bong Joon-Ho directed one of the most underrated sci-fi movies in years with 2013’s Snowpiercer and his long-awaited follow-up is hitting the streaming service, Netflix in 2017. The film, Okja, made my most anticipated list of 2017 and today, Netflix released the first teaser for the film.

            Okja follows a young girl named Mija who lives deep in the words in South Korea and tries to prevent a powerful corporation from taking her best friend who happens to be a massive but shy monster named Okja. The trailer reveals Tilda Swinton’s character who seems to be the brains behind the creation of this beast, who we also get a glimpse of. Though the trailer runs under a minute in length, it tells so much of the three central characters in the movie and has me even more excited than I was before. The set photos have shown Jake Gyllenhaal as a wacky sort of character too so I’m hoping to get a look at the rest of the cast soon.

            Check out the teaser trailer below for Okja! The film stars Swinton, Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun and Ahn Seo-hyun as Mija. Okja will be released on Netflix and in limited theaters on June 28^th.