If you are disappointed that there’s no zombie apocalypse caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, you might want to settle for a zombie movie that if social distancing is not required when it gets released in Summer 2020. It is sort of a sequel to the South Korean blockbuster, “Train To Busan.”

The best zombie thriller out of Asia, “Train to Busan” was said to be even better than “World War Z” though it didn’t have the star power of Brad Pitt. Once the movie got going early on, it kept us on the edge of our seats. The story sees a father and daughter and other passengers on a train, escaping the zombie onslaught hoping to reach port city of Busan which is the remaining enclave for surviving humans in the Korean peninsula. The daughter and a pregnant wife of one of the passengers barely made it to Busan at the end of the movie.

“Peninsula” takes place four years after “Train To Busan” and it is said not to be a direct sequel as is not a continuation of the story of the characters in the original movie. “Peninsula” shows a Korean peninsula overrun by zombies with a smattering of human populations with no central government and all trying to survive from the zombies and from other humans. An ex-soldier sent out on a mission back into Korea to retrieve something valuable but faces a dilemma when he encounters a group of survivors trying to get out of the peninsula.

There are scenes that reminds of you “Mad Max” which is another post-apocalyptic movie franchise that has influenced a good number of movies touching on that theme. Overall, it looks like fast-paced movie that is bigger in scope than the original “Train to Busan.”

If pandemic is over by the summer, then “Peninsula” might get a release in the big screen. Otherwise, its release may be postponed which other movie studios are doing or will be released straight as an online movie that can be downloaded or streamed.

South Korean star Gang Don-won is playing the lead role in the movie which was directed by "Train to Busan" director Yeon Sang-ho. Other actors joining Gang Don-won are Lee Jung Hyun, Lee Re, Kwon Hae Hyo, Kim Min Jae, and Goo Kyo Hwan.