After bidding goodbye to his most loved character Tony Stark aka Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr is all set to be part of another new project. Downey will co-star as well as produce an upcoming HBO drama series.
The drama series is based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘The Sympathizer’. Park Chan-wook will serve as co-showrunner with Don McKellar. Downey, via his Team Downey company, is also an executive producer. Downey will play multiple supporting roles and a search is currently underway for the lead actor (the cast will be predominantly Vietnamese). It centres on an unnamed captain in the South Vietnamese army who’s secretly a communist and spy for the Viet Cong. He leaves Saigon for Southern California in 1975, where he becomes enmeshed in the exile community and serves as a cultural adviser to an American film about the war. He’s later recruited to return to Vietnam for a raid on the communists.
Filming is set to take place in Los Angeles and in Vietnam. The series is a co-production between HBO, A24 and Rhombus Media, produced in association with Cinetic Media and Moho Film.
