The Seoul-based sales and production house will launch the zombie thriller at next month's Cannes Marché du Film.

The Hong Kong screen icon will head the Golden Goblet Awards jury at the festival's 28th edition, running June 12-21.

The auteur's first feature since 'The Spy Gone North' in 2018 casts Son Suk-ku as a young Roh Tae-woo and Ha Jung-woo as dictator Chun Doo-hwan, the architects of the 1979 coup that plunged South Korea into another decade of authoritarian rule.