Black Knight, Netflix’s television adaptation of the popular Webtoon Delivery Knight by Lee Yungyun, is set to premiere on the streaming platform in mere weeks. We’ve got a new trailer that reveals that the live-action version is more down-to-earth than its source material, but still action-packed.
The adaptation, written and directed by Cho Ui-seok in his directorial debut, features a dystopia where Korea has turned into a desert wasteland where humans can’t even breathe the air if they want to survive for prolonged periods of time.
Here’s the show’s official synopsis:
The legendary deliveryman 5-8 (Kim Woo-bin) works as a lifeline to mankind, delivering oxygen and other necessities in the daytime. At nightfall, however, he transforms into a Black Knight with a plot to upend the order created by Cheonmyeong Group, the de facto ruler of the devastated world. Ryu Seok (Song Seung-heon), the ruthless heir to Cheonmyeong Group, clashes with 5-8 as he defends his vision of a world with no place for the refugees. Seol-ah (Esom), a major at the Defense Intelligence Command, warns 5-8 that chaos may spiral out of hand, while Sa-wol, a refugee who aspires of becoming a Black Knight, boldly climbs onto 5-8’s truck, eager to join the fight.
While 5-8 plots to overturn the crooked world order, Ryu Seok’s dark ambitions, Sa-wol’s pursuit of becoming a Black Knight, and Seol-ah’s investigation into the sinister secrets of Cheonmyeong’s dirty secrets are all in play.
I’m not familiar with the Webtoon, but this trailer—which gives off a mix of Mad Max and The Last of Us vibes—is compelling enough for me to want to check at least the first couple of episodes out.
Black Knight becomes available on Netflix on May 12, 2023.
