Jung Hae-in and Go Kyung-pyo go eye-to-eye in Disney+’s Connect

by tccolb

A start date has finally been confirmed for Disney+’s dark fantasy Connect along with a new video teaser and poster of the main cast: Jung Hae-in (Snowdrop), Go Kyung-pyo (Love in Contract), and Kim Hye-joon (Inspector Koo).

The story imagines a new breed of immortal humans known as Connects, with one such person being our hero Ha Dong-soo (Jung Hae-in). But when one of his eyes is stolen away by organ hunters, Dong-soo discovers that he can still see what that eye is seeing – despite being transplanted into the head of another man.

This brings us to Oh Jin-seob (Go Kyung-pyo), the eye transplant recipient and serial killer who has been evading capture and terrorizing the nation. He didn’t anticipate, of course, that he would become strangely connected to his (involuntary) eye donor and that Dong-soo would try to hunt him down.

Complicating matters is the mysterious Lee Yi-rang (Kim Hye-joon), who understands the secret behind Connects and offers to help Dong-soo with his quest.

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The new teaser begins with Yi-rang discussing the Connect phenomenon and she explains that Connects are a new type of humans and represent a new humanity. We then cut to an upset Dong-soo describing how he lost his eye and the appearing text screens re-emphasize the key points of his story as we learn that he can see what the other man is seeing.

Through his visions, Dong-soo realizes that the man who took his eye – Jin-seob – is a murderer and is led to the next crime scene as it’s happening. As the following text screen introduces the director – filmmaker Takashi Miike – Dong-soo resolves to get his eye back.

We then jump back to Yi-rang’s conversation, but the man she’s speaking with is skeptical about Connects. She meets with Dong-soo afterwards and confirms that he’s a Connect by slicing his knee. However, Dong-soo is more concerned about stopping Jin-seob in order to prevent future murders. The accompanying text screens announce: “New human vs. Murderer / The immortal human’s chase has begun!”

In the sequence that follows, the captions introduce the drama’s main actors and we get a brief glimpse of Kim Roi-ha (Kingdom: Ashin of the North) and Yang Dong-geun (Cheer Up). The teaser then closes on Dong-soo demanding his eye back from Jin-seob and, curiously, their images become overlapped.

With Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (The Great Yokai War: Guardians) at the helm, and scripts by Masaru Nakamura and Heo Dam, Disney+’s Connect will be launching next month on December 7.