Forbes
2021.04.09 16:48
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Park Chan-Wook Signs On For TV Adaptation Of ‘The Sympathizer’

Getty Images Respected South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook recently signed on to direct a TV adaptation of the English language novel The Sympathizer written by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen ... The bestselling novel, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was named a New York Times Editor's Choice, tells the story of a North Vietnamese mole in the South Vietnamese army ... The novel’s half-French, half-Vietnamese protagonist remains a spy in the South Vietnamese community when he lands in the US and even helps make a film about the American presence in Vietnam.