this is good news... but i guess i would just want to see the old cast too.. i mean that was the way the drama was sooo much fun rite? i dont wanna see anymore comparisons even though i know that people would even criticize the way the old cast act. but lets be honest , we love coffee prince with yoon eun hye , at least i do:)

this is good news... but i guess i would just want to see the old cast too.. i mean that was the way the drama was sooo much fun rite? i dont wanna see anymore comparisons even though i know that people would even criticize the way the old cast act. but lets be honest , we love coffee prince with yoon eun hye , at least i do:)
Ooops, should have said good post! Waiting on your next one!

OMG! I just wrote about a movie being a better follow-up than a series sequel in the last Open Thread. Whatever they do in the movie, it won't be easy to get away from comparisons with the drama. As everyone's already mentioned, the drama is DAWESOME and it would be difficult to replicate all the success that it has received.

That said, I'm still looking forward to the movie. Maybe it'll be like Pride and Prejudice. I heart that novel a lot, the A&E mini-series was amazing and I thought Colin Firth was irreplaceable as Mr. Darcy, but they did another movie version with Keira Knightley and I ended up loving that too!

I would love for this to be a total remake: totally different cast, and a totally different interpretation of the book. but it still better be cool and have that old Coffee Prince vibe. This could either go really well or could be really disappointing.

That being said, I have high hopes.

It's kind of like when they make your favorite book into a movie and you're all excited... but then you watch it and you're disappointed because you've kind of already made a movie out of it in your head and this is not the way your movie went. This is especially true when they take out characters or remove your favorite scenes.

Except... I think a Coffee Prince movie would magnify that sensation because CP is still so fresh in our minds. Think about it... they've made countless American series into movies and changed the casting and stories but no one has cared... but generally this was done a decade or so after they aired. We just watched CP two years ago and (I'll admit it if you don't) we just re-watched it a couple of months ago. That's t he story we love!

Plus I really can't imagine anyone else playing Eun Chan. I still have a hard time considering the character a girl, YEH played it that well. It was always like "Okay, Eun Chan, if you insist you're a girl I'll take your word for it because I can't prove you wrong." Compare that to other ambiguous Girl Playing Guys scenarios ( think Amanda Bynes in "She's the Man") and that's what I'm afraid of having to endure.

Daisy - In Japan, Hana Yori Dango was origionally a movie. The drama came out later with new actors. HYD Final was actually a movie sequal to the drama.

This movie is not a movie sequal to the drama.

*fan girls swine flu to death*
OMG
OMG OMG OMG
OH MY EFFING GOD!

This is like every CPs fan dreams come true!!!!
So I'm totally getting my hopes up, Gong Yoo & Yoon Eun Hye all the way. I seriously can't imagine anyone else doing a Eun Chan other then Eun Hye and Gong Yoo for Han Kyul ALLLLL THE WAAAAAY!

:]

@ haha Hana Yori Dango was originally a manga which was adapted into dif movie versions, an anime, a TW drama, then a J dorama for two seasons then a film, then the current Korean vers, & now a Chinese vers.

WOW.

I'm trying not to get too excited, because the success of Coffee Prince (the drama) was mostly due to 1. the cast 2. the PD & crew 3. music

It would be certainly be interesting if the drama does get a movie version though =)

Duelist was the film adaptation of Damo? Interesting...

Meh. I'm not that thrilled about a CP movie. The best thing about the drama was the soundtrack; everything else was too hyped up for me to fully enjoy (although it was my fault that I read your recaps BEFORE watching the drama - a decision I still regret today). Also, I don't really like Korean movies in general.

KYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! XD
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This is such great news. I do hope that they could wait for Gong Yoo and get the original cast. I wonder what the timeline for the movie would be. Since the rep is saying that the story would be different from the drama, I hope it's an after story. This news just made my week. :-)

Personally if the movie is going to have a different story, I wish the old cast don't participate. I'd rather have a fresh start. However, if there's a 2nd series of the drama, the other way.

Whoever's going to be casted as Hwang Min Yeop better really do this job well. I miss Lee Un.

Unless it's a true continuation story, I'm absolutely against casting the same people. With different actors, you can treat the movie as truly its own beast. With the same actors, then with the "authority" of your prior memories of the original CP drama. In other words, which one is the "real" Coffee Prince?

@Z,

"Compare that to other ambiguous Girl Playing Guys scenarios ( think Amanda Bynes in “She’s the Man”) and that’s what I’m afraid of having to endure."

But you gotta admit, Kim Hye Soo playing Eun Chan would make for interesting dialogue.

Han Kyul: "Eun Chan, you really need to lose weight. Your manboobs are getting out of hand."
Eun Chan: "Uhhh . . . . yeah . . . . "

OMG that's so exciting!!! *squeal!* but it would suck if gong yoo and yun eun hye aren't casted....
man, if yun eun hye has to cut her hair that short again and lose weight, that would suck for her...but since she's filming lady castle, i don't think it'll be her... :(
:.sigh.: it just won't be the same without her as go eun chan...

OMG this is great news! I loved the drama. Would love it to be YEH and GY again but I'm not counting on it. Can't wait!!

Whooo yeah! I can't wait for the movie adaptation! I'll try not to get my hopes up on the casting of the old characters. . .

Definitely looking forward to the direction the movie is going to take. :D

Without Gong Yoo & Yoon Eun Hye, I don't think I would be excited to watch it. Coffee Prince without Gong Yoo & his smiles? idk, it sounds like just a plain coffee with no flavor.

It's gonna be interesting to see, just as an exercise of different-media/same-universe in itself.

Like #57-Fug said, a good book (or story line) can have plenty of adaptations (P&P -although I'm not comparing it to CP XD), some can suck, some can be awesome. It really depends on the quality of everyone working on it and the amount of love and respect they put into the project.

Movies are an art form, if done well. Let's hope they make a great movie!

oh wow! i love coffe prince. i've watched the drama & read the book at leat 5 times already! i love gong yoo as han gyul. he's perfect! i hope the movie will be as good as the drama. best news ever!

What? What? What? a movie remake?

Do they want me to go crazy all over again!!! heheheh
Well thats good news for someone like me head over heels with that series... Because of that series i become hook up in k-drama series and also japanese too. Especially reading news in dramabeans everyday that complete my day. Bwahahaah .......... Am i think im going crazy around here... hehehe

Thanks for the news!!!

I'd be seriously OVER THE MOON FREAKING HAPPY if they got Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun Hye to reprise their roles!!! (But Yoo isn't done with his military service until the end of this year though, right? I miss him...)

Leave coffee prince as it is, please.

Thank you dear Javabeans.
it's really OMG, sounds interesting and delightful.

Honestly,I don't think I would be able to sit through the movie. I can't even read the novel because the drama series, to me, is the original (though the novel came first).
My feelings are very mixed. I was really sad when the drama ended and I wanted more but I don't/didn't necessarily need a new retelling. Like people said before, what MADE CP wasn't its storyline (because its been done before). And though I'm sure the original story and subsequent retellings won't be horrible (if done right), nothing, at least to me, is going to beat the drama.

wiiiiiiiiieeehhh!!!!!!...
this would be great!, the cast.. hhmm hope it would be a great choice too!
its saD that GY, will not make it.. but still ill support it!.
hope it can be showed herein PHIL.. wishing""

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Coffee Prince was the FIRST korean drama that started me on my k-drama watching craze. Serious! Even though I was 22 years old when I watched it but I was just never really into k-dramas TILL then.

PLUS +

This was the drama that made me chance upon this wondrous magnificent blog that is called DRAMA BEANS.

Since then, the incredible reviews have kept me dead curious about the next thing Java beans is watching :p

I don't know. I couldn't get into the romance because they never changed EunChan's appearance (until the very, very end). And because she looked so masculine still, the romance was believable to me. Just my 2 cents.

...I AM STILL RECOVERING FROM MY TWO YEAR CP WITHDRAWAL!!! Are they really trying to get me into a mental institution?!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

I did enjoy both -- the drama and the book -- I just wonder how the movie will be.....

Oh, this will be another crazy ride for all CP fans....

While people are focusing on YEH, GY and Lee Eon as actors who would be hard to replace on CP (as they should be), two actors who I think did a particularly fine job w/ their roles were Kim Young Ok (the grandmother) and Han Ye In (Eun Sae) and would be equally hard to replace.

KYO played the grandmother to perfection - being stubborn, prickly and overbearing and yet, being strangely loveable at the same time.

HYI was near perfect w/ the way she delivered her lines (esp. her put-downs) and her facial expressions were priceless.

I have mixed emotions on this. CP introduced me to kdrama. For over a year, I was so obsessed by it, collecting all news articles, episode summaries, screen caps to savor the story. I could have bought the DVD if I had enough money during my trip to Japan last November. I have moved on to other kdramas but from time to time, I still watch cp at mysoju and read through all my collections of articles, which include, by the way all comments after its episode and chapter summaries done by javabeans, My mp3 only had its OST for over a year, but now include the superb music from all other kdramas I've watched. Now, for a movie, I may surely indulge on it. But with GY and YEH not on it, I may agonize, Up until now I still hope they become a real life couple. Thank you CP for the good stories that have come my way but sigh, I miss GY and YEH...

The reason why people love Coffee Prince so much is because of the very good chemistry between Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun Hye. They portray their characters as if they were real lovers. It’s a drama with so much love. Also with the support of all the cast especially the 3 princes, makes this drama a very funny and exciting drama.

I love Coffee Prince…but if they will make it into a movie without the real cast, it will not be the same. Gong Yoo and Eun Hye makes Coffee Prince famous all over the world so they should give them the role for the movie as well. I miss them so much.

I love Coffee Prince. It's my favorite drama ever.

CP is my favorite drama. I have watched it countless times and looked for other dramas that the cast was in. That's why I watched looooooooong drama, Princess Hours -- because YEH was in it. Everytime a film or drama is remade, there will be mixed feelings. But for me, without the original cast, I don't feel like watching the movie. I just can't seem to get excited over a new cast and crew. I think the new actors, producers, and director will do a good job, but nothing will ever touch the intangible magic that made this drama so special. It's a little sad.

Woww!! This is great news!!! =D I also love CP! My favorite drama. At first, I felt excited when I read the news.. but after reading some of the comments here, it made me realize... true enough, CP wouldn't be the same without GYEH together. Their acting was one of the reasons that made the drama so endearing to me. A CP movie will be cool, but I still hope for CP2 with GYEH. :) Thanks for sharing the news. =)

I HOPE THE SAME PEOPLE WITH PLAY THERE ROLES I'LL DEFENTLY BUY IT
IF OTHER PEOPLE PLAY IT I WOULD BE SAD =[ I FELL IN LOVE WITH THERE COUPLES IT WAS AMAZING. yay!!!

THEH HAVE TO HAVE GONG YOO AND EUN HYE YOON IN THE MOVIE WITHOUT THEM PEOPLE WOULDNT EVEN BOTHER WATCHING IT WITHOUT THEM

PS GYEH HAVE AN AMZING CHEMISTRY WATCH THE LAST DAY OF COFFEE PRINCE HE WAS HUGGING HER AND THEY WERE DRINKING LIKE WHEN YOU GET MARRY THING

I TOTALLY AGREG WITH ELIZBETH IF THERE GONNA MAKE THE MOVIE WITHOUT GYEH THEN WHATS THE USE

IF THERE ARE MAKING IT WITHOUT GYEH THEY HAVE TO MAKE A COFFEE PRINCE 2 AT LEAST :)
WITH GYEH OF COURSE

ahhhhhhh! i am so beyong ridiculously super excited about this! i LOVE the drama and the novel!!!!! im so excited to see how they make the movie, i cant get the last scene of the book out of my head!

i love the drama version. i watched already like 7 times and still want to watch it.lol. i love the main actors i think that they did good paring them up! dont think the drama would have been as good as it is if the actors were different. if they are making the movie they better have the same ppl cuz i wont be watching it. the only reason i watched it is because of GYEH. they are so good together. lol. LOVE THEIR CHEMISTRY.

WITH OUT YEH AND GYOO I WON'T WATCH IT...I LOVE ALL THE OLD CAST...

This is a good news. For of and 4 d other fans of the drama. And it will be better he they'll not replace the original characters most especially GONG Y0O and Y0ON EUN HYE. Because they are MAJOR reason why COFFEE PRINCE is a big hit not just in korea but also in other countries specially here in the Philippines.
There are no other actors and actresses who fits for the role except for the original cast. I'm looking forward to it. I just hope my wish will come true. ORIGINAL CAST ONLY...PLEASE. Thank you.

It's good that people are going to be talking about Coffee Prince again. It doesn't really matter whether the movie will turn out good or not. I think we have already seen the best of what this story can offer. And with Gong Yoo and Eun Hye, we have the perfect actors for the roles of Han Kyul and Eun Chan. If the movie turns out to be actually good, then that's another reason for us CP addicts to celebrate. If not, then we can always take out our dear CP dvds from our treasure boxes (mine has been already used just last weekend, hehehe) and go back to what we already know will unfailingly give us magic and wonder and just plain happiness even if we rewatch it over and over again. So in the end, whether they talk about the movie, the drama, or the novel, what matters is that they will be talking about Coffee Prince, the story we don't ever want to forget. I sure don't.

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Well I do love the drama and the old cast but I want to see the movie version before criticizing... I'm just really curious about 1 thing: who are the actors cast for the movie? Can't find news about the movie other than there will be a movie and the filming was schedule to start this month...

EUN HYE IS SO CUTE IN coffee prince BUT I DON'T LIKE HER IN LAST SERIES.

I think yoon eun hye and gong yoo are the best cast for cp movie, mybe have not enough money to hire them?oh common, if u want make best thing use the best ones, i will not watch it without yeh&gong yoo, also uncle hong,harim,ana sunki in it!!!noway!

One of the things that made Coffee Prince special was the overall acting by the entire cast....It was one of the best I've seen...Coffee Prince the movie actually would be very interesting, and probably would have succeed if not for the drama..But I'm really curious to see how the movie would do. While great actors can be replaced...it will be difficult to replace YEH. Coffee Prince is EunChan & her life, her love story...Viewers fell in love with EunChan, and now they automatically think of YEH when they think of EunChan. EunChan & YEH have become one in peoples mind. Whoever takes the EunChan role, she will be under immense pressure...She will be compared to the original EunChan, and will have difficulty in overcoming the original EunChan's shadow, even if she's a great actress. One way to help avoid this situation may be to create a new EunChan & changing the story alot..But already people are saying that without YEH, there is no EunChan and that there is no Coffee Prince..Even so, I think the movie may surprise many people...and I'm actually looking forward to it...But it's strange that I haven't heard anything about the cast yet. Will it still be released in Feb? We'll see..

anyone heard anything about the movie version? cause it's been months and i haven't seen or heard anything new about this rumor. and i don't want a movie version, i want a 2nd season with the original cast and i hope it'll last for 100 or more episodes:)

i hope yoon eun hye and gong yoo. joint togater on the CP movie...n i dont like if you change actor and artis.......of coure i don't see this a movie if you change the artis and actor..

Its already March.... Is the movie released yet?

i'm going mad again!!!

i want GYEH again in the sequel of the 1st shop of coffee prince ...