EXCLUSIVE: Steven Yeun, Emmy winner for Netflix‘s Beef, is returning to the streamer as the lead of Pagans, one of the buzziest new series of the past year. Yeun will star in and executive produce the supernatural drama from Say Nothing creator Joshua Zetumer.
Equal parts emotional, horrifying and humorous, Pagans unearths all our darkest thoughts about family. It follows Gus (Yeun) who becomes the sole caretaker of his two children after the tragic loss of his wife. While his son is typical, his daughter, Alice, is anything but. What starts as a strained father-daughter relationship soon evolves into something far more sinister.
Yeun’s casting comes almost a year after Zetumer’s Pagans spec script triggered a massive bidding war involving some 15-18 studios, platforms and producers; it was won by Netflix with a straight-to-series order in September.
He is the second high-profile addition to the project since. In December, Drew Goddard and his producing partner Sarah Esberg came on board as executive producers.
Zetumer serves as showrunner. He executive produces alongside Goddard and Esberg via Goddard Textiles, Jonathan van Tulleken, Erica Kay as well as Yeun and Christina Oh for Celadon Pictures.
This marks Yeun’s first TV role since his Emmy-winning performance alongside Ali Wong in the limited series Beef, which also landed him a Golden Globe and a SAG Award.
Yeun has a relationship with Netflix on the film side, too. Up next, he co-stars opposite Ben Affleck in Affleck’s film Animals for the streamer after doing the same in Affleck’s previous Netflix movie, The Rip. Yeun’s other notable recent credits include Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, Jordan Peele’s Nope, Chang-Dong Lee’s Burning, and Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You. Yeun, who received a Oscar nomination for Minari, is repped by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
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