A TV adaptation of Parasite is in the works.
Bong Joon-ho’s movie made history at the Oscars on Sunday night, as it became the first non-English movie to win Best Picture.
The film followed the Kims, a poor family who con their way into the lives of the wealthy Park family – but their easy life gets complicated when their deception is threatened.
The director is set to team up with Succession’s Adam McKay on the series, which Collider report is set to be either five or six episodes.
According to the publication, Mark Ruffalo is set to star in the series. However, as the series isn’t expected to mirror the film is exactly, it’s not clear which character he would be playing.
“The HBO limited series inspired by Parasite is in the early stages of development, and to speculate on any characters or casting is wildly premature,” a spokesperson for HBO said in a statement.
Bong Joon-ho previously told The Wrap a bit about the series, revealing that it would roughly be six hours long – and would be based on ideas that were originally meant for the movie.
“So I had all these key ideas accumulated from when I started writing the script,” he said.
“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.”
Besides winning Best Picture on Sunday night, Parasite also won Best Foreign Language Film. Bong Joon-ho won Best Director, as well as Best Original Screenplay alongside Han Jin-won.
