Netflix revealed on Wednesday that Hitoshi Iwaaki's Kiseijuu (Parasyte) will receive a Korean live-action drama series titled Parasyte: The Grey. Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) is serving as the director and Ryu Yong-jae (Peninsula) is writing the script at Climax Studio and WOW POINT. The series will be available globally on Netflix.

Cast
Jeong Su-in: Jeon So-nee (Scripting Your Destiny)
Seol Kang-woo: Koo Kyo-hwan (Monstrous)
Choi Jun-kyung: Lee Jung-hyun (The Family Is Coming)

Iwaaki serialized the sci-fi horror manga in the Monthly Afternoon Magazine from November 1989 to December 1995. The manga won in the general category of the 17th Kodansha Manga Award in 1993. The manga has a cumulative 25 million copies in circulation.

Studio Madhouse adapted the manga into a 24-episode anime series that aired from October 2014 to March 2015. Sentai Filmworks licensed the series in English in March 2015.

Tokyopop originally released 12 volumes of the series in English under its manga anthology magazine Mixxzine from 1998 to 2002. Del Ray Manga republished eight volumes of the series from 2007 to 2009. Kodansha Comics USA later republished the English-translated volumes from 2011 to 2012.

The manga was adapted into two Japanese live-action films released in 2014 and 2015.

Synopsis
"Parasites" are tennis ball sized creatures, whose numbers and origins are unknown. They invade and take over the human mind in order to survive. Shinichi Izumi is a 16-year-old high school student who lives with his parents in a quiet neighborhood. One night, a Parasite invades Shinichi's body in an attempt to take control of it. However, it fails to complete the takeover process and ultimately ends up inhabiting only his right arm.

Thus, both Shinichi and the Parasite—who calls himself Migi—retain their individual minds. Now in a peculiar "human and alien" relationship, Migi proposes that they cooperate to survive. Shinichi has no choice but to agree, and he must now cling to his morality as he and Migi face off against other bloodthirsty Parasites. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Source: Comic Natalie