William Earl administrator Jason Yu’s feature debut, “Sleep,” is a supernatural domestic thriller about a South Korean couple named Soo-jin and Hyeon-soo (Jung Yu-mi and Lee Sun-kyun) who are torn apart by his increasingly dark sleepwalking habits.
As they welcome a baby into their world, things take a turn for the worse, and she investigates what is really causing her husband’s frightening behavior.
Yu cut his teeth as Bong Joon-ho‘s right-hand man during the two-and-a-half-year filming of “Okja,” and considers the director a mentor and inspiration for the project.
He also counts Lee, who died in 2023, as a person who deeply influenced him as a filmmaker. Yu spoke with Variety about crafting his horror around a family drama, films that inspired him and the best advice he got from Director Bong.
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