The American remake ofTrain to Busangets a new update from the attached director. Released in 2016, director Yeon Sang-ho’s original Korean film follows a group of people on a passenger train from Seoul to Busan as a zombie virus outbreak consumes South Korea. The horror flick was a hit and an AmericanTrain to Busanremake was subsequently announced in 2021 with James Wan producing and the titleThe Last Train to New York. While originally scheduled to release in April 2023, the film was removed from the release calendar in 2022, with no updates arriving since.
Now, attached directorTimo Tjahjantoreplies to a fan question on X, formerly Twitter, about theTrain to Busanremake’s status. Though theNight Comes For Usfilmmaker reveals that he’s been set to start the project for five years now,he calls the movie “stalled” for reasons outside his control. Check out Tjahjanto’s post below:
“I’ve been ready since 2020,” Tjahjanto writes in his post, “but when a film is stalled thats [sic] not up to the director.”
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Tjahjanto may not be actively working onThe Last Train To New York, but he is keeping busy with other projects. The director just recently releasedThe Shadow Strayson Netflix last year, following up his success withThe Night Comes for Usin 2018. His next movie isNobody 2starring Bob Odenkirk, which hits theaters on August 15 this summer. It was also just announced thatTjahjanto will direct Jason Statham inThe Beekeeper 2, with filming reportedly getting underway later this year.
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Tjahjanto’s busy schedule is bad news for the AmericanTrain to Busanremake. He is presumably in post-production onNobody 2now and will seemingly be jumping intofilming onThe Beekeeper 2, which could hit theaters in 2026. IfThe Last Train to New Yorkdoes end up moving forward, then,it seemingly wouldn’t be able to get underway until well into 2026. This also depends on why the film has been delayed, though, and it’s unclear if it is facing script problems, creative disagreements, or if Wan has lost confidence in the project.
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The zombie horror subgenre has experienced its ups and downs over the past few years, and it’s clearly not as popular as it was during its heyday in the 2010s with projects likeThe Walking DeadandWorld War Z(2013).Train to Busancame at the perfect time for this subgenre, and its reach certainly extended into North America, despite being presented in Korean. The good news is thatTrain to Busanstill holds up as a horror film, with some intense set pieces and strong performances from Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, and Kim Su-an.
The success of the first film led toTrain to Busan Presents: Peninsula2020, with Yeon Sang-ho expressing interest inmaking aTrain to Busan 3.
While there’s nothing wrong with the original, it also would still be exciting to see Tjahjanto’s take on the material. With his past martial arts movies,Tjahjanto has proven himself incredibly adept at dynamic and hard-hitting action set pieces, andThe Last Train to New Yorkcould have incorporated his unique action style into the horror space. Though the AmericanTrain to Busanmovie may not be completely dead yet, it doesn’t sound like audiences should expect it anytime soon.
