{"id":69498,"date":"2025-08-09T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69498\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:10:06","slug":"park-chan-wook-don-mckellar-expelled-by-wga-for-breaking-strike-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69498\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Chan-Wook, Don McKellar Expelled by WGA for Breaking Strike Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Writers Guild of America<\/a> announced Friday that it has expelled two members, Park Chan-wook<\/a> and Don McKellar<\/a>, for writing on their HBO miniseries \u201cThe Sympathizer<\/a>\u201d during the 2023 strike.<\/p>\n

\n\tPark and McKellar co-created the seven-episode series, which starred Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey, Jr. and was based on the 2015 novel of the same name by writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. It aired<\/a> in 2024. According to the guild, Park and McKellar did not appeal their expulsions.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety has reached out to representatives for Park, McKellar and HBO for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe WGA<\/a> also announced that Anthony Cipriano has been suspended through May 1, 2026, for writing on \u201cThe Last Breath,\u201d which was previously known as \u201cUntitled True Story Haunting\u2014Thriller Project.\u201d Cipriano was also given a public censure and a lifetime ban on serving as a strike captain.<\/p>\n

\n\tPark, 61, is a South Korean writer, director and producer best known for films like \u201cOldboy\u201d (2003) and \u201cThe Handmaiden\u201d (2016). His next feature, a Korean production titled \u201cNo Other Choice,\u201d will premiere in competition at Venice Film Festival later in August. McKellar is a Canadian actor and filmmaker who wrote, directed and starred in \u201cLast Night\u201d (1998). He has a screenplay credit on \u201cNo Other Choice,\u201d which he shares along with Park, Lee Kyoung-mi and Lee Ja-hye.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe WGA previously announced that it had disciplined seven writers for various alleged violations during the 2023 strike. Four of those writers were publicly identified when they chose to appeal, but the other three had remained unidentified until Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a memo to the membership, WGA leaders said that the board had \u201cdecided that the disciplines should be made public.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe WGA membership narrowly upheld<\/a> the expulsions of Roma Roth and Edward Drake in May. The members also narrowed approved the suspension of writer Julie Bush. But the membership overturned a public censure of writer Tim Doyle, who was accused of engaging in conduct unbecoming of the guild when he made a joke that was in poor taste on a private Facebook group.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe WGA did not elaborate on the strike violations committed by Park, McKellar and Cipriano. In the memo, the guild thanked the volunteers who had served on the Strike Rules Compliance Committee.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey investigated dozens of allegations of violations and determined whether there was sufficient evidence to send cases on to the Board for further action,\u201d the leadership stated. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe board and the officers also thanked the members of the various trial committees, who heard testimony and delivered recommendations on discipline to the board.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll of these members volunteered their time for the delicate but necessary task of holding writers accountable to fulfill their obligations to their fellow members under the Strike Rules, Working Rules and WGAW Constitution,\u201d the WGA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Writers Guild of America announced Friday that it has expelled two members, Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[50459,88,43399,50460,18220,39847],"class_list":{"0":"post-69498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-don-mckellar","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-park-chan-wook","11":"tag-the-sympathizer","12":"tag-wga","13":"tag-writers-guild-of-america"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}