Parasite director Bong Joon Ho is making his first animated movie

Mickey 17, Snowpiercer, and Parasite director Bong Joon Ho is branching out into a new area of filmmaking. The Oscar-winning director is working on his first animated film, Ally, planned for release in 2027. On Thursday, production company V8 Pistons Pictures released the first image from that movie, showing a wide-eyed blue sea creature — the title character, a piglet squid called Ally. (Real piglet squid are not nearly this cute.) The film follows Ally through her Little Mermaid-like curiosities and hopes about the world above the waves, and the reality of her encounters with humanity. Here’s the production company’s plot summary: