On April 7th, American media outlet Vulture reported the news by quoting Viet Thanh NguyenŌĆÖs tweet that reads, ŌĆ£Thrilled to finally announce that A24 has optioned THE SYMPATHIZER for TV, with director Park Chan-wook, whose films include THE HANDMAIDEN. His OLDBOY was a big influence on THE SYMPATHIZER, and I canŌĆÖt imagine a better person to direct this TV adaptation with Rhombus Media!ŌĆØ The novelist will be ŌĆ£talking to Lee Isaac Chung of MINARI for the A24 podcast and will gush more about Park Chan-wook then.ŌĆØ He also expressed his joy in production, saying, ŌĆ£I hope Park Chan-wook, who did wonders with the octopus in OLDBOY, will be equally imaginative with the squid in THE SYMPATHIZERŌĆ”ŌĆØ The Sympathizer is a genre-bending epic that won both the Edgar Award and the Pulitzer Prize in the same year. It follows an anonymous Vietnamese protagonist who works as a communist double agent after immigrating to Los Angeles. Park Chan Wook is ŌĆ£the visionary Korean directorŌĆØ who produced The Vengeance Trilogy and The Handmaiden. A24 recently distributed Minari that has shook the world with its magnificence. https://twitter.com/viet_t_nguyen/status/1379594509349134338 https://twitter.com/viet_t_nguyen/status/1379603721710006272 Source (1, 2)
