Netflix has revealed a few more plot details about Black Knight, the highly-anticipated new sci-fi action series from South Korea. Check out the trailer.
Set in 2071, this sci-fi action series depicts a post-apocalyptic world where the Korean peninsula has become a desert wasteland. Only one percent of the population has survived, and strict social stratification has been established. Here deliverymen play critical roles in a society that has stopped functioning properly.
Like other deliveryman, the one known as “5-8” (Kim Woo-bin, Our Blues) works as a lifeline to mankind, delivering oxygen and other necessities in the daytime. At night, though, he is quite unlike them: With extraordinary battle skills unmatched by anyone, 5-8 transforms into a Black Knight, one with a plot to upend the order created by Cheonmyeong Group.
This company is the de facto ruler of the devastated world, controlling it by capitalizing on oxygen, as survivors depend on respirator masks to breathe due to extreme air pollution. Heading Cheonmyeong Group is the company’s sole heir, the ruthless Ryu Seok (Song Seung-heon, Voice), who clashes with 5-8 as he defends his vision of a world with no place for the refugees.
Seol-ah (Esom, Kill Boksoon), a major at the Defense Intelligence Command, warns 5-8 that chaos may spiral out of hand. Meanwhile, young refugee Sa-wol (Kang You-seok, Melting Me Softly) aspires to become a Black Knight like 5-8 and to join the fight.
While 5-8 plots to overturn the crooked world order, Ryu Seok moves forward with his dark ambitions, Sa-wol continues his pursuit of becoming a Black Knight, and Seol-ah investigates the sinister secrets of Cheonmyeong’s dirty secrets…
Black Knight, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Friday, May 12, exclusively on Netflix. (You can set a reminder for it now.)
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