Yim Si-Wan, Park Gyu-Young and Jo Woo-Jin are cast in Netflix distributed movie “Mantis.” Movie is a spin-off of 2023 movie “Kill Boksoon,” with Byun Sung-Hyun returning to write the screenplay. The three lead characters did not appear in movie “Kill Boksoon,” but they play characters involved with MK Enterprise that was run by Cha Min-Kyu (Sul Kyung-Gu). They each have different goals as they deal with the void left by the death of Cha Min-Kyu.
Release date for “Mantis” has not yet been decided.
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Elite assassin Mantis returns from vacation and learns that Cha Min-Kyu (Sul Kyung-Gu), who was the head of MK Enterprise, is dead. He decides to leave MK Enterprise and seek a new chance with other fellow contract killers. He has a friend named J (Park Gyu-Young) that he has known for many years. They trained together to become assassin. J is lethal as a contract killer, but she was kicked out of MK Enterprise due falling out of favor with her superiors. She holds complex feelings towards Mantis.
Meanwhile, Dok-Ko (Jo Woo-Jin) was the one of the founders of MK Enterprise and he was Mantis’s teacher. He retired from the contract killing world, but, after Cha Min-Kyu’s death, he returns to take over MK Enterprise. Dok-Ko tries to lure Mantis back to the company.
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