Two of our favourite genre filmmakers, John Carpenter and Bong Joon-ho, have agreed to collaborate on one of the South Korean director’s upcoming projects, which he says will be a horror film.

Bong, who is currently promoting his new sci-fi film Mickey 17, shared the stage with Carpenter during a special 4K restoration screening of the latter’s 1982 horror classic, The Thing.

At a post-screening Q&A conducted by Bong, via his interpreter, he said: “So you’ve created a lot of scores for your films and most of them were done by yourself. Would you be interested in doing music for another film?”

“My plan is for my next, next movie –” he tried to continue, but before he could add anything further, Carpenter interjected to say: “I wanna do your score.” The two icons shook on the agreement.

Details on this horror project are still vague. In 2021, Bong stated of his two future projects: “The Korean film is located in Seoul and has unique elements of horror and action. It’s difficult to define the genre of my films. The English project is a drama film based on a true event that happened in 2016. Of course, I won’t know until I finish the script, but it has to be set half in the UK and half in the US.”

As well as directing his own films, John Carpenter has also composed several iconic soundtracks for his movies such as Escape from New York, Assault on Precinct 13, Big Trouble in Little China and six Halloween films.