In 2019, in Avengers 4: Endgame, Robert Downey Jr. played "Iron Man" Tony Stark for the last time, and after playing the world-saving ring finger at the cost of his life, he did not appear in a single work for two full years.
Recently, fans of "Iron Man" finally waited for a good news: he will play an important role in the spy drama "The Sympathizer". After more than ten years, Robert Downey Jr. starred in the American drama again, and the director is still the famous Park Chan-wook, fragrant?
Park Chan-wook
Robert Downey Jr. participated in the filming of many works after bidding farewell to Marvel, but the response was very general, such as the reputation and box office of "Dolittle's Fantasy Adventure" starring him, which surprised people, and he was also nominated for the worst actor at the 41st Golden Raspberry Awards. However, some time ago, the American drama "Deer Horn Boy" that he supervised had a good response, which was regarded as a city for it. However, as a powerful faction in Hollywood, when he can once again conquer movie fans with his acting skills has become a topic of concern to everyone.
Robert Downey Jr
Now, "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr. finally has the opportunity to "resurrect" again in front of the camera. He starred in the American drama "The Sympathizer," which is in the pipeline, which is being cast around the world, looking for a cast made up mainly of Vietnamese.
The Sympathizer will be directed and operated by Park Chan-wook and Don McKeller (Gould's 32 Short Films, The Red Violin), and will be produced alongside Robert Downey Jr., HBO and A24. Park Chan-wook is a well-known Korean director and screenwriter, whose representative works include "Old Boy", "Waves", "Miss" and so on.
Based on Pulitzer's award-winning novel The Sympathizer, The Sympathizer is a best-selling debut book published in 2015 by Vietnamese-American writer Nguyen Thanh Yuek, which touches on a variety of literary genres and techniques, including puzzle solving, post-fiction, black humor, history, espionage, and war. The novel focuses on the story of a half-French and half-Vietnamese spy in Saigon in 1975 who struggles in the last days of the Vietnam War.
Not only did The Sympathizer win the Pulitzer Prize, but it also won the Carnegie Award for Fiction in 2016 and the American Prize for Outstanding Asian Pacific Fiction, and has been hailed as a reflection on the "Vietnam War" and even rivaled Coppola's Apocalypse Now. This book was introduced and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House in 2018, and has also aroused strong repercussions from many readers in China, and the original book of "Sympathizer" is currently rated 8.5 in Douban.
Nguyen Thanh Viet and his novels
The Sympathizer is a work that combines real history with the personal experiences of the author, who fled vietnam to the United States with his parents in 1975 and spent time in a Vietnamese refugee camp in Pennsylvania before settling in San Jose, California. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Nguyen than a Ph.D. in English has been teaching at the University of Southern California ever since, and is now a professor of British and American studies and ethnology. In 2018, Nguyen Thanh Yuet was elected to the American Academy of Humanities and Sciences, and fellow members of the Academy are Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, McEwan, Milan Kundera, Orhan Pamuk, Alice Monroe, and others.
Text/Cover News Reporter Yang Fan
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