{"id":133155,"date":"2025-08-10T01:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133155\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T01:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:34:08","slug":"park-chan-wook-don-mckellar-expelled-from-writers-guild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133155\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar Expelled From Writers Guild"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLegendary Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook<\/a> and his co-creator on the HBO Max<\/a> series The Sympathizer<\/a> have been expelled from the Hollywood writers\u2019 union after allegedly working during the strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe director of Oldboy, Snowpiercer and The Handmaiden was booted from the Writers Guild<\/a> of America alongside Don McKellar after working on the 2024 series during the work stoppage, the union told members Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdapted from the eponymous Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, the series from A24 and Rhombus Media follows a North Vietnamese double agent (played by Hoa Xuande) who continues passing along information after moving to Southern California before the fall of Saigon. Robert Downey Jr.<\/a> was critically praised for playing multiple roles in the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter has reached out to HBO and representatives for Park and McKellar for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tPark is the most high-profile figure yet to be identified by the union\u00a0as a rule-breaker during\u00a0its 148-day strike. In April, the union announced that seven writers had been disciplined<\/a>, six for allegedly breaking the WGA\u2019s strike rules in 2023 and one for constitutional violations. Four of those members appealed<\/a> their rulings and were named at the time. The decisions were largely upheld in a subsequent member vote.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the union, Park and McKellar did not appeal their disciplines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe union additionally announced that it has suspended member Anthony Cipriano until May 1\u00a0and imposed a lifelong ban on his holding a non-elected union office for writing on\u00a0The Last Breath f\/k\/a Untitled True Story Haunting\u2014Thriller Project.<\/p>\n

\n\tA Korean auteur who in 2022 won the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Decision to Leave, Park is currently preparing to debut his latest film, No Other Choice<\/a>, at the Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2024, Downey Jr. was nominated for an Emmy<\/a> acting prize for his role in The Sympathizer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook and his co-creator on the HBO Max series The Sympathizer have been expelled…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,487,80008,80009,67,132,68,49256,32118],"class_list":{"0":"post-133155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hbo-max","10":"tag-park-chan-wook","11":"tag-the-sympathizer","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-writers-guild","16":"tag-writers-guild-of-america"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115001902107505845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}