‘Beef’ Creator Lee Sung Jin Re-Ups Overall Deal With Netflix
Why it matters: Netflix secures a visionary storyteller, ensuring more award-winning content and potential franchises for its 270 million subscribers.
- Netflix has re-upped its overall deal with 'Beef' creator Lee Sung Jin for multiple years, covering scripted series and feature films.
- Lee Sung Jin's new pact precedes the world premiere of 'Beef' Season 2, which tackles multi-generational relationships with a new cast featuring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny, and Charles Melton.
- 'Beef' Season 1 was a breakout success for Netflix, staying in the Global Top 10 for five weeks and sweeping major awards, including eight Emmys and three Golden Globes.
- Netflix is also expanding its action slate, with Variety reporting 'Extraction 3' is set with Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba, indicating a broad investment in diverse content creators and franchises.
Netflix has renewed its overall deal with Emmy-winning 'Beef' creator Lee Sung Jin, signaling more scripted series and feature films are on the horizon, even as the streamer also greenlights other major projects like 'Extraction 3' with Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba. This multi-year extension comes just before the world premiere of 'Beef' Season 2, which reinvents the original limited series with a new theme and cast, including Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan, and is already generating awards buzz.
