Former agent Cha Seung-won pursues The Tyrant

by solstices

Promotional materials are out for Disney+’s upcoming sci-fi thriller The Tyrant, setting its tone with gritty altercations and intense confrontations. A spin-off of the Witch movie series, the drama — initially planned as a movie, and later expanded to four episodes in the editing room — delves into the opposite perspective, centering around the operations of the bioweapon researchers.

On a rainy night, a deliberate head-on collision derails an important delivery. Amidst the wreckage, a shrouded figure shoots everyone else dead, having obtained what they came for. With that, the last sample of the Tyrant Program has been stolen.

What exactly does that sample contain? As the U.S. intelligence agent Paul — played by Kim Kang-woo (Wonderful World) — explains, the Tyrant Program has been creating a drug to develop a superhuman gene. After catching wind of this covert initiative, the U.S. intelligence agency called for the program to be shut down, alongside the relinquishing of all research material.

Needless to say, such unilateral orders did not sit well with the Tyrant Program’s Director Choi — played by Kim Sun-ho (Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha) — who, presumably, sought to secretly reclaim the sample. Judging by his look of consternation in the face of Paul’s English swearing, though, perhaps not everything has gone according to plan.

Enter Cha Seung-won (Our Blues) as the former agent Im Sang, whose mission is to eliminate any opposition to the Tyrant Project. Sang has no qualms getting his hands dirty to clean up after the project, as evidenced by his eerily unsettling grin while torturing information out of a man. Yet Sang knows a tall task when he sees one. “What were you thinking, creating a virus that you can’t control?” Sang drawls, while Director Choi’s expression remains stony.

Will the virus be obtained, or eradicated? “If it’s that child, she will be enough,” an unknown lady narrates, as Jo Yoon-soo (The Interest of Love) gazes at her own reflection. She’s Ja-kyung, the technician tasked to seize the last Tyrant Project sample, and she cocks a gun with ease. Amidst relentless car chases and explosive gunfights, someone’s footstep easily cracks the wall of a building — suggesting the superhuman mutation has already taken hold. The teaser closes on Director Choi’s self-satisfied smile: “The Tyrant is ours.”

Helmed by filmmaker Park Hoon-jung (The Childe) on both the writing and directing fronts, The Tyrant is slated for an August 14 release.

Via Sports Kyunghyang

 
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