The Sympathizer Archives

Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Team Downey (Perry Mason) are looking to keep their Emmy nomination-filled relationship with HBO going, with Deadline Hollywood reporting exclusively that the Avengers star will not only adapt Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-Prizer winning novel The Sympathizer to series But what makes this deal different from Perry Mason is that Downey[...]

Park Chan-wook, the acclaimed director of Oldboy and The Handmaiden, will be directing the TV adaptation of The Sympathizer, the Pulitzer-winning novel by the Vietnamese-American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen Nguyen announced the news on his Twitter feed "Thrilled to finally announce that @A24 has optioned THE SYMPATHIZER for TV, with director Park Chan-wook, whose films[...]