Bong Joon Ho‘s Parasite was completely unstoppable on the 92nd Academy Awards. The South Korean movie received high honors on the 2020 Oscars, nabbing the coveted Best Picture along with its wins for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature. Parasite‘s Oscars sweep capped off the movie’s already spectacular awards season run, which included successful the Palme d’Or at Cannes Movie Pageant, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes, two BAFTAs, and plenty of, many different competition prizes.
Critics couldn’t get sufficient of this deeply darkish comedy, and the excellent news for Parasite followers is that there may nonetheless be extra to return from this story. HBO is in talks to adapt the 2019 film as a limited series.
This is all the pieces we find out about that potential Parasite present thus far.
Bong Joon Ho will return. Parasite would not be Parasite with out Bong Joon Ho, and, fortunately, the writer-director himself will likely be on board to supervise the sequence. He and Succession producer Adam McKay will work collectively to develop the potential miniseries as co-executive producers.
It is anticipated to be in English. Parasite the movie is a Korean-language thrill trip that’s nicely price, in Bong’s phrases, “overcoming the one-inch barrier of subtitles.” Per The Hollywood Reporter, HBO’s restricted sequence is anticipated to be in English. Nonetheless, every week after the potential sequence was introduced, Deadline reported that Bong was “open to discussions as as to whether the sequence will likely be in English or Korean,” so which may not be set in stone.
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It would run for about six hours. Shortly after the potential Parasite restricted sequence was introduced, Bong Joon Ho shared some key particulars about what to anticipate from this adaptation. Specifically, the auteur revealed that Parasite‘s two-hour runtime doesn’t incorporate the entire concepts he had for the story and that he would wish about 4 extra hours of further display screen time to ship the total narrative. He told The Wrap in January, “I simply could not embody all these concepts within the two-hour operating time of the movie, so that they’re all saved in my iPad and my objective with this restricted sequence is to create a six-hour-long movie.”
We already know some scenes that will likely be prolonged. Along with revealing the approximate runtime of the Parasite sequence, Bong Joon Ho additionally pointed to some particular components of the film that may very well be expanded within the adaptation. [Minor spoilers to follow.] “When the unique housekeeper Mun Gwang (Lee Jung Eun) comes again within the late night time, one thing occurred to her face. Even her husband requested about it however she by no means answered,” he advised The Wrap. “I do know why she had the bruises on her face. I’ve a narrative for that, and apart from that, why does she know the existence of this bunker? What relationship does she have with that architect to know of this bunker? So I’ve all these hidden tales that I’ve saved.”
There’s been no phrase but on whether or not the unique forged will return. Though the film’s leads — Choi Woo-shik, Tune Kang-ho, Jang Hye-jin, and Park So-dam — have been a key a part of Parasite‘s success, it isn’t clear at the moment whether or not they’ll reprise their roles as members of the Kim household within the Parasite restricted sequence.
Parasite is presently available to rent or purchase on Amazon Prime Video.
Choi Woo-sik, Tune Kang-ho, Jang Hye-jin, and Park So-dam, Parasite