Acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook — known for “Oldboy,” “The Handmaiden” and “Decision to Leave” — has been tossed out of the Writer’s Guild of America for allegedly violating the rules of the 2023 strike , which ran for a record-breaking 148 days.
The South Korean writer-director and Don McKellar were identified Friday as two of the guild’s expulsions , for working on HBO’s “The Sympathizer” during the historic work stoppage, Variety reports.
Park and McKellar co-created the Emmy-nominated , Vietnam War-era miniseries. Neither of the men have appealed the WGA’s decision.
In a memo cited by Variety, WGA said its Strike Rules Compliance Committee volunteers “investigated dozens of allegations of violations and determined whether there was sufficient evidence to send cases on