The development of the TV adaptation
Well, the TV adaptation on HBO is still in the early stages of development. Even the script is yet to be finished. However, there is one thing we know about the heavily anticipated series. The film — as well as the coming TV show— director, Bong Joon-Ho has just revealed that the TV series is going to show “some background stories of each character”. This means it will also dig deeper into what is going on between Min-hyuk (Park Seo-Joon) and Mrs. Park (Cho Yeo-Jeong).
Min-Hyuk's appearance in the movie
Min-Hyuk is a student at a top university and Ki-Woo(Choi Woo-Sik)’s wealthy close friend. He only appears at the beginning of the film. Although making a relatively short appearance, Min-Hyuk plays a very important role as the bridge that connects both the Kim and Park families when he introduces Ki-woo to be the Parks’ new tutor.
Do you remember how Min-Hyuk described Mrs. Park to Ki-Woo?
He said, “She’s, how would you say it? She’s simple. Young and simple. Anyway, she is nice. I liked her.”
He said, “She’s, how would you say it? She’s simple. Young and simple. Anyway, she is nice. I liked her.”
And when Ki-woo first met Mrs. Park, she called Min-hyuk brilliant and said, “Both me and Da-Hye were highly satisfied with him regardless of Da-Hye's grades. Ugh, I really liked him.”
The film did not reveal much about their peculiar relationship. Nevertheless, Bong disclosed that “there is a peculiar nuance between Min-hyuk and Yeon-Kyo (Mrs. Park),” He told The Movie Report, “As if something happened between them. I couldn’t describe it all in a 2-hour film.”
The director's original scripting ideas
According to Bong, he has “all these key ideas accumulated from when I started writing the script” and that the ideas are stored on his iPad. One example he offered was, “When the original housekeeper, Mun-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 all these hidden stories that I have stored.”
Besides that, there is also something wrong between Mun-Gwang and the architect, Namgoong Hyeonja. “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,” explained the award-winning director.
There are too many details on the films that Bong could not fit into the film. So, “I really wanted to explore those ideas freely with a five- or six-hour film,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. The goal of this limited series is to create a six-hour-long film. We just can’t help but wonder what surprises will be included, can we?
It is said that the three-time Oscar nominee and Hulk star, Mark Ruffalo, could be playing a lead in the series, but the news is yet to be confirmed.
