The legendary Korean filmmaker Park Chan-Wook and his co-creator on the HBO series Max The sympathizer were expelled from the Hollywood Writers’ Union after having pretended to work during the strike.
The director of Oldboy, Snowpiercer And The servant Writers Guild of America was started with Don McKellar after working on the 2024 series during the work stoppage, the union told members on Friday.
Adapted from the eponymous novel of the Pulitzer Prize by the Viet Thanh Nguyen, the A24 and Rhombus Media series follows a double North Vietnamese agent (played by Hoa Xuande) which continues to pass information after having moved to the south of California before the fall of Saigon. Robert Downey Jr. was critically congratulated for playing several roles in the series.
The Hollywood Reporter contacted HBO and Park and McKellar representatives to comment.
Park is the deepest figure not to be identified by the Union as a breaker of rules during his 148 -day strike. In April, the union announced that seven writers had been disciplined, six for alleging the WGA strike rules in 2023 and one for constitutional violations. Four of these members called on their decisions and were appointed at the time. Decisions were widely confirmed during a subsequent member vote.
According to the Union, Park and McKellar did not call on their disciplines.
The union also announced that he had suspended the Anthony Cipriano member until May 1 and imposed a life ban for his holding an elected union office to write on The last breath f / k / A true story without haunting – the thriller project.
A Korean author who in 2022 won the prize for best director at the Cannes Film Festival Decision to leave, Park is currently preparing to start his latest film, No other choiceAt Venice Film Festival.
In 2024, Downey Jr. was nominated for an actor price Emmy for his role in The sympathizer.
