Mumbai: OTT platform Netflix has confirmed the production of Parasyte: The Grey, a series by director Yeon Sang-ho based on Hitoshi Iwaaki's comic book published by Kodansha. The story is about unidentified parasitic life-forms that live off of human hosts and strive to grow their power. As they start to disrupt society, a group of humans wage war against the rising evil.

Hitoshi Iwaaki's original comic book series "Parasyte" about invasive life-forms that seize and control human bodies has sold over 25 million copies in over 20 territories and countries. The story has spawned animation and live-action adaptations.

Sang-ho made the movies "Train to Busan" and "Peninsula," which launched the K-zombie craze. For Netflix, he also made the series Hellbound. Netflix added that given his incisive insight into human nature when people are faced with chaotic world order, many are curious to see how he will translate the world portrayed in Parasyte with a Korean twist. Ryu Yong-jae, the screenwriter of Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area, which topped Netflix's Global Top 10 TV (non-English) within three days of its release, joins Sang-ho in knitting this story.

Jeon So-nee plays Jeong Su-in, who falls victim to a parasite, and when it fails to take over her brain, she enters into a bizarre coexistence with it. Koo Kyo-hwan and Lee Jung-hyun, both of whom have previously worked with Sang-ho in the film “Peninsula,” joins the cast. Kyo-hwan plays Seol Kang-woo, who tracks down parasites in order to find his missing sister. Jung-hyun plays Choi Jun-kyung, the team leader of "Team Grey," a task force battling parasites. Having lost her husband to these invasive life-forms, she devotes herself to their demise.