TV Bits: ‘Parasite’ Miniseries, ‘Doctor Who,’ ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story,’ & More
By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 26, 2020 1:30 pm EST
Bong Joon-ho has teased more details about the upcoming Parasite miniseries based on his Oscar darling that suggest the involvement of his original cast. In an interview with The Wrap, the Oscar-nominated director described his miniseries with Adam McKay as a “six-hour-long film” which will expand on his ideas for the original film that are “all stored in my iPad.”
One of those possible stories would revolve around the housekeeper with a deadly peach allergy, Moon-Gwang, played in the film with chilling efficiency by Lee Jung-Eun. Bong described:
While Bong hasn’t confirmed whether the cast of the Parasite film would reprise their roles in the miniseries, or even if the miniseries would involve the original characters, these new details seem to point to both.
“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,” Bong added. “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.”
The Doctor is returning for one more trip through space and time. Jodie Whittaker confirmed that she will reprise her role as the 13th Doctor in the forthcoming Doctor Who season 13, marking her third season as the titular Time Lord.
“Yes, I’m doing another season,” Whittaker told Entertainment Weekly. “That might be a massive exclusive that I’m not supposed to say, but it’s unhelpful for me to say [I don’t know] because it would be a massive lie!…I absolutely adore it. At some point, these shoes are going to be handed on, but it’s not yet. I’m clinging on tight!”
Much pomp and circumstance is made around the selection of the Doctor, a beloved icon of British culture, which made Whittaker’s casting as the first woman to play the time-traveling alien so historic. With her second season as the Doctor currently going strong, and the successful ratings for her first season, it seemed unlikely she would relinquish the title now.
Ryan Murphy’s Impeachment: American Crime Story has cast the roles of two significant media figures in the upcoming FX limited series about the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. Deadline reports taht GLOW breakout Getty Gilpin has been tapped to play conservative media pundit Ann Coulter, who authored the 1998 book High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton.
