Oscar-winning director's iPad holds these 'secrets'

It’s the first foreign-language film to ever win the Academy Award for the Best Motion Picture. And has also clinched three more awards at this year’s Oscars-- the ones for Best Director, Best International Feature film and Best Original Screenplay. With a total of four Academy Awards in its belt that happen to be the maximum for any Oscar-nominated film this year, South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite has brought the attention of the world to Korean cinema.Tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that it was his favourite film of 2019. But the Parasite ‘story’ is not over yet and the director’s Apple iPad holds further ‘secrets’ to the film.
As per a report by GameSpot, a major TV network may adapt the film into a TV series which may be a mini-series consisting of a few long episodes. Director Bong Joon-Ho seems to have known all along that his ideas that went into the making of the film have got a much wider scope and a single film won’t be able to hold all of them. So, he has stored all those ideas on his iPad. The report quotes Bong Joon-Ho as saying that he started accumulating all the ideas for the creative project when he started writing the script for Parasite. He says that he “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."
From a practical viewpoint, even seasoned film fanatics would find it hard to see a six-hour-long film. But a TV show with six or more episodes looks more palatable and may help fit the narrative with more depth. Getting the Oscar for the best film means a boost in Parasite’s revenue and Bong Joon-Ho’s reputation as a director. Some of the acclaimed works of Bong Joon-Ho have been films like Memories of Murder (2003), Mother (2009) and Snowpiercer (2013).