Koreans are paying millions to see New Zealanders attacked by sheep.
After years of Asian tourists flocking to our shores to take photos and pat our most abundant livestock, a Korean company is providing funding to have genetically engineered sheep take on their Kiwi captors.
Relax, it's only a movie.
It's called Black Sheep and the New Zealand Film Commission announced yesterday that South Korea's Daesung Group will be a co-financier of the comedy-horror due to start shooting early next year.
The film shows what happens when GE goes - stop us if you've heard this before - horribly wrong.
As the commission's promo says: "The sheep start turning nasty and it's people that begin bleating."
It's the first film by director-writer Jonathan King, the film-making son of late-great historian Michael.
Also involved in the film are Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop and post-production facility Park Road Post, which now has a partnership with Daesung.
Jackson himself started out with comic horror Bad Taste, which featured sheep being blown up by a stray bazooka.
Black Sheep has already been sold to distributors in New Zealand, Australia, Britain, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, with more territories being negotiated.
