Developed by Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar and based on the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer is an upcoming historical black comedy-drama series. It tells the story of the Captain, a North Vietnamese mole who infiltrates the South Vietnamese Army, immigrates to the US after the fall of Saigon, and gradually assimilates into the local Vietnamese community, while still reporting back to his superiors. If you are curious when the first season of the series is coming out, you have come to the right place.
Here’s all The Sympathizer release date information we know so far, and all the details on when it is coming out.
Is there a The Sympathizer release date?
The Sympathizer’s release date is expected to arrive by 2024.
In April 2021, it was reported that A24 and Rhombus Media had acquired the rights to The Sympathizer and that Park Chan-wook (Oldboy and The Handmaiden) and Don McKellar (Last Night, Childstar) were slated to serve as the showrunners on the project. Nguyen took to Twitter (now known as X) to share the news. In April 2023, HBO released a first-look trailer for the series slated to premiere sometime in 2024 at the Warner Bros. Discovery press event announcing the Max / HBO Max streaming service rebranding. This date is an estimation based on the information we have at the time of this writing.
The cast includes Hoa Xuande as the Captain, Fred Nguyen Khan as Bon, Toan Le as the General, Ky Duyen as Madame, Sandra Oh as Ms. Sofia Mori, Robert Downey Jr. in several antagonist roles, and more.
Where is The Sympathizer coming out?
The Sympathizer is anticipated to come out on HBO and stream on HBO Max in 2024.
The official synopsis for The Sympathizer reads:
“Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Sympathizer is an espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States.”
