Posts Tagged ‘remakes’

Drama Casting & News
Kim Haneul and TOP are top contenders for Absolute Boyfriend
by | October 18, 2011 | 171 Comments
javabeans: Wait so Kim Haneul is doing You’re My Pet remake AND the Absolute Boyfriend remake? girlfriday: What’s Absolute Boyfriend? javabeans: It’s another Japanese manga that’s been adapted over and over again and is up for a K-drama remake. The heroine has a robot boyfriend. Literally a robot. girlfriday: Does not compute. He’s a robot?... More »


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Temptation of Wolves to become a drama
by | October 16, 2011 | 77 Comments
Another remake is in the works, this time from film to drama, with the adaptation of popular youthful romance Temptation of Wolves. The movie starred Jo Han-seon and Lee Chung-ah, but is perhaps most famous for catapulting a young Kang Dong-won to stardom. The story premise is fairly straightforward, as a coming-of-age story about a... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Hollywood to remake Hello Ghost
by | February 28, 2011 | 40 Comments
Looks like Hello Ghost is on a roll. The dark comedy starring Cha Tae-hyun as a suicidal man who gets saddled with a couple of invasive ghosts was a huge box office success in Korea, selling over 3 million tickets in two months. And after being exported stateside, it’s already been snatched up for a... More »


Drama Casting & News
Comrades remake attracts interest from Hollywood
by | June 6, 2010 | 39 Comments
Park Yong-ha‘s next drama is based on the 1996 Hong Kong film Comrades: Almost A Love Story (aka Tian mi mi) and has taken on a new title: Love Song (which is still a working title). And according to production company Verdi Media, Hollywood studio Warner Bros. (which owns the rights to Comrades) has already... More »


Drama Casting & News
Drama version of Civil Servant in the works
by | June 3, 2010 | 39 Comments
The hit action-comedy movie Level 7 Civil Servant (aka 7th Grade Civil Servant aka My Girlfriend Is An Agent) is getting remade into a drama series, and is currently in the planning stages with Apple Tree Pictures, which produced comedy series The Man Who Can’t Marry and thriller drama Time Between Dog and Wolf. This... More »
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Drama Casting & News
Chae Rim returns to All About Eve in special appearance
by | May 28, 2010 | 29 Comments
The role that made Chae Rim a star was the 2000 Hallyu hit All About Eve, which is now getting a Chinese remake starring Chuno‘s Jang Hyuk, and she’ll have a special appearance in the new drama as well. The Korean miniseries was a huge hit and paired Chae Rim with Jang Dong-gun, while pitting... More »


Drama Casting & News
Park Yong-ha signs on to new drama
by | May 26, 2010 | 33 Comments
Park Yong-ha will be returning to television screens in a drama remake of the popular Chinese film Comrades: Almost a Love Story (aka Tian Mi Mi, or 첨밀밀 in Korean), which starred Maggie Cheung and Leon Lai. This makes it a year since Park’s last project (and one of my favorites), Story of a Man.... More »


Drama Casting & News
Jang Hyuk picks next project with All About Eve
by | March 25, 2010 | 67 Comments
Hot on the heels of his latest success playing slave hunter Dae-gil in Chuno — which ended this week — actor Jang Hyuk has announced his follow-up project: a Chinese remake of the Korean drama All About Eve, which was a hit back in 2000 when it starred Jang Dong-gun and Chae Rim (and Kim... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Hyun Bin and Tang Wei wrap filming on Late Autumn remake
by | March 9, 2010 | 51 Comments
Hyun Bin will no longer be in Seattle, as filming has wrapped on Late Autumn, the remake of a ’60s classic that co-stars Tang Wei. The film had begun shooting in the Seattle are on January 12 (where Hyun Bin’s girlfriend, Song Hye-gyo, reportedly visited him). The film wrapped with its epilogue March 1, which... More »


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Seo Woo faces off against Jeon Do-yeon
by | December 15, 2009 | 15 Comments
Jeon Do-yeon, Seo Woo It was with particular interest that people took notice of Jeon Do-yeon‘s next film project, as it teams the Cannes Best Actress winner (for Secret Sunshine) with award-winning director Im Sang-soo (A Good Lawyer’s Wife) in a remake of a classic movie largely regarded as the best Korean film of all... More »