Great setback for Park Chan-Wook. The Writers Guild of America (WGA), the main scriptwriters union in Hollywood, announced on Friday, August 8, the exclusion of the famous director of Miss (2016) and Old (2003), as well as his Canadian employee Don McKellar. According The Hollywood Reporter, The two cookers of the series The sympathizer (2024) would have continued working on the episodes, ignoring 148 days of strike that paralyzed Hollywood last year.
The adaptation of the homonymous novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Award, the series, co -produced by A24 and Rombus Media, follows the adventures of a double Vietnam Northnam agent (embodied by Hoa Xuande) before the fall of Saigon. It continues its espionage activities after installation in southern California. The HBO Max program, in which Robert Downey Jr. performed several roles, had been acclaimed by criticism as soon as it was launched.
No to call for your exclusion
Park Chan-Wook thus becomes the most famous personality that the union publicly identifies for having broken the strike. Last April, the WGA had already announced sanctions against seven writers, but without revealing the identity of some of them.
Unlike other sanctioned members, Park Chan-Wook and Don McKellar did not appeal their exclusion. Requested by The Hollywood Reporter, HBO and filmmake representatives have not yet responded.
This announcement occurs when the Korean director, who had won the staging award at the Cannes Film Festival Decision to leave (2022), he is about to present his new film There is no other option In the Venice Mostra.
Source: BFM TV
