While Parasite is being nominated for and winning all kinds of awards, director Bong Joon-ho is developing a limited series adaptation of it with Adam McKay for HBO. This series will expand on the story that the film has told. The filmmaker previously explained:
“With ‘Parasite,’ while I was writing the script I had so many more ideas I couldn’t convey into the two-hour running time of the film. I knew that if I had a longer running time, I would be able to tell these stories, and I that’s what I plan to talk about with Adam pretty soon. Though I’m not very familiar with the TV industry, I really consider this limited series an expanded film that can delve deeper into the stories that didn’t make it into Parasite.”
I’m actually pretty stoked for this series and It’ll be interesting to see how exactly Joon-ho will expand on the story. In an interview with Variety, Bong teased what we can expect, saying that the series will feature many stories regarding each of the film’s characters. He also described it as a six-hour-long movie, highlighting the other ideas that he couldn’t incorporate into the movie. He explained:
“So I had all these key ideas accumulated from when I started writing the script. I just couldn’t include all those ideas in the two-hour running time of the film, so they’re all stored in my iPad and my goal with this limited series is to create a six-hour-long film.”
He also teased one of the possible stories which will revolve around the peach-allergic housekeeper Moon-Gwang, who was portrayed by Lee Jung-Eun in the film.
“For example when the original housekeeper Moon-Gwang (Lee Jung-Eun) comes back in the late-night, something happened to her face. Even her husband asked about it but she never answered. I know why she had the bruises on her face. I have a story for that and aside 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 have all these hidden stories that I have stored.”
This is great! I would love it if he managed to get the original cast back together for this series. That would be amazing! The cast includes Lee Sun-Kyun (A Hard Day), Cho Yeo-Jeong (Obsessed), Choi Woo-Shik (Okja), Park So-Dam (The Priests), and Chang Hyae-Jin (Poetry).
Now that we know a little bit more about what is being planned for this series, is the idea of it starting to grow on you more?