Netflix has released a new trailer for Hellbound Season 2, the sequel to the 2021 South Korean horror-thriller series directed by Yeon Sang-ho and based on his own webtoon of the same title. The trailer gives us our first look at the shocking resurrection of Park Jung-ja (played by Kim Shin-rok), one of the first victims sent to hell. Shin-rok has been been promoted from a supporting role to a main role for the second season, and it looks like chaos will ensue following his character's resurrection as themes of justice, mortality, and sin are explored on a much larger scale.
Watch the new trailer for Hellbound Season 2 below:
The sequel is confirmed to arrive on Netlfix on October 25, 2024. The first season featured supernatural creatures appearing out of nowhere to condemn people to hell, and a religious group called The New Truth flourished as people sought for answers amid the destruction. In Season 2, Min Hye-jin (Kim Hyun-joo), a lawyer for Sodo, gets involved with the New Truth Society, the Arrowhead faction, and the terrifying resurrection of New Truth leader Jung Jin-su (Kim Sung-cheol) and Park Jung-ja.
The official logline of Hellbound Season 2 reads, "As the chaos deepens, lawyer Min Hyejin, The New Truth, and Arrowheads get entangled anew amid the sudden resurrections of the formerly condemned."
Who are the cast of Hellbound Season 2?
Kim Sung-cheol is replacing actor Yoo Ah-soo for the role of Jung Jin-su in Hellbound Season 2. The 32-year-old actor, who made his television debut in 2017's Prison Playbook, also starred in other Netflix K-dramas such as Hospital Playlist, Sweet Home, Arthdal Chronicles, Racket Boys, Our Beloved Summer, and Vincenzo.
Other actors reprising their roles in Season 2 are Kim Hyun-joo (JUNG_E, The Bequeathed) as Min Hye-jin and Yang Ik-june (Believer 2) as Jin Kyung-hoon. Kim Shin-rok (Sweet Home) reprised her role as Park Jung-ja. Supporting roles are Lee Dong-hee (JUNG_E) as Kim Jeong-chil, and Lee Re (Castaway Diva) as Jin Hee-jeong. Cho Dong-in (Kairos) will play Pinwheel.
The newcomers include Moon Geun-young (The Throne), Moon So-ri (Queenmaker), Jung Ji-so and Im Sung-jae (Extraordinary Attorney Woo). However, on June 12, 2023, it was confirmed that Yang Dong-geun got off for person reasons, and Hong Eui-joon (Parasyte: The Grey) ended up replacing him.
What is Hellbound Season 2 about?
Hellbound is based on the webtoon of the same title by the series director, Yeon Sang-ho, and writer-illustrator Choi Kyo-seok. At the end of the first season, the religious leader Chairman Jung Jin-su had disappeared, Park Jung-ja had been resurrected, and Min Hye-jin had escaped with baby Toughie despite the child being decreed to damnation. In the second season, the religious factions the new Truth, the Arrowheads, and Sodo leader Hyejin must deal with shocking resurrections of the formerly condemned.
Netflix released a plot description for Hellbound Season 2:
Jung Jin-su, founder of the religious cult the New Truth, is back after being condemned to hell for several years. Upon his return, he realizes the dicta of the New Truth and its more extreme sect, the Arrowhead, now rule society. But when Jinsu finds out he’s not the only one who’s come back to the land of the living, he seeks to understand what being resurrected has done to — and for — him. Is resurrection really damnation, as the New Truth preaches, or could it be the path to true salvation?
In a November 2021 interview with Variety, Hellbound creator Yeon Sang-ho acknowledged that with the webtoon now adapted in the TV show, plans for the second season would be to return to the drawing board:
Because Hellbound is based on the original webtoons, my partner Choi Kyu-Seok and I have decided that the story afterwards will be told first through the webtoon and, as for whether we would want to turn that into another live-action series, that’s something that we will need further discussion on. As you know, we have only just released Hellbound Season 1 and so we didn’t have any time to discuss that issue with Netflix. So I would say this is something we need further discussion on.
Source: Netflix K-Content YT
