Choi Jin-hyuk courted for new KBS zombie drama
by tineybeanie
Just coming off of his OCN action-crime drama Rugal, it looks like Choi Jin-hyuk may be returning to us with a new drama called Zombie Detective. It’s been reported that he’s been courted for the lead role in this upcoming KBS drama, as the CEO of a private investigations firm.
When he turns into a zombie, he loses his memory and goes into hiding in the mountainside. He humbly decides to accept his fate as a zombie. In order to survive, he adjusts his gait and speech pattern to resemble a human, and he even learns how to bleed realistically. (But no details yet on how he’ll stop his limbs from rotting and falling off.)
After four years of hiding, he comes across a corpse without friends or family, and decides to take on its identity and return to the human world. It turns out that the corpse is the head of a PI agency, and the zombie begins to solve mysteries in order to fit in with his new identity.
It’s not clear yet whether or not this will lean towards comedy or darker in tone, but it would be nice to see Choi Jin-hyuk take on a role that lets him use his action skills while showing off his comedic timing.
KBS drama Zombie Detective is currently being written by Baek Eun-jin (Heartbreak Library), and will be directed by PD Shim Jae-hyun (The Producers).
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1 larelle79
May 21, 2020 at 10:06 AM
*stares and blinks*
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missvictrix
May 21, 2020 at 11:26 AM
*does the same*
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Kafiyah Bello
May 21, 2020 at 2:50 PM
This is was my exact reaction. WHAT????
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Bunny Bean loves Uppa
May 21, 2020 at 8:52 PM
Will have to protect our 👀!!
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2 WaywardHistorian
May 21, 2020 at 11:34 AM
Soooo, similar to his most recent drama, Rugal, then. ;)
Maybe this one will be intentionally hilarious.
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larelle79
May 21, 2020 at 11:49 AM
*snorts and giggle*
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Eazal
May 21, 2020 at 2:31 PM
*sighs with resignation*
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
May 21, 2020 at 7:11 PM
There's going to be so much angst. He'd probably eat himself to starve off his hunger for flesh. Discreet little bites so as not to spark suspicion. Like his middle finger, first. Then his big toe. Butt cheeks in Episode 8. His b*lls in Episode 12. By the time the last episode rolls in, only his head with his emo hair is left. In the final scene, @wishfultoki plays a wistful piano piece while camera cuts to CJH sadly eating his brains. The end.
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WishfulToki
May 21, 2020 at 10:01 PM
o.O
This would be my first cameo in a zombie drama...
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Aurora
May 22, 2020 at 7:32 AM
I almost fell from my chair with your comment! So funny!
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dramafan100
May 24, 2020 at 12:03 AM
Gosh, this is so funny!
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3 Kurama
May 21, 2020 at 12:54 PM
Hum... I'm starting to question his mental health...
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Eazal
May 21, 2020 at 2:31 PM
You, me, the universe...
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Bunny Bean loves Uppa
May 21, 2020 at 8:54 PM
Is it just me or anyone else is also finding the storyline somewhat unusual, unbelievable? Zombie solving murder cases? I'm speechless, don't even feel anything. I think I'm dead inside. 😂😂
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
May 21, 2020 at 8:58 PM
Watch the Canadian show iZombie about a coroner zombie who works with the police to solve murders. Seriously, so so good.
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Bunny Bean loves Uppa
May 21, 2020 at 10:56 PM
Actually I'm a kinda little scared!! I hope they won't use too much scary make up. Still will wait for beanies comments!!
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Kurama
May 22, 2020 at 12:11 AM
Oh yeah, it was really a fun show. I think it became too weird in the last seasons.
But it was really fun to watch her cook some brain :p
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
May 24, 2020 at 5:30 PM
The food puns each week were so good. Half of the fun of each episode was working out how her meal was related to the case.
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
May 23, 2020 at 1:20 AM
I was gonna say, this is hardly the weirdest Zombie premise out there lol
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FlyingTool
May 24, 2020 at 4:57 PM
Ok, I have to ask, what is the weirdest Zombie premise you’ve heard?
Slice-of-Life Dramatics
May 22, 2020 at 12:51 AM
Now the "dead inside" comment was a fitting pun for the zombie premise hahahahaha
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Bunny Bean loves Uppa
May 22, 2020 at 1:16 AM
Thanks, but then I was reminded of movie World War Z and all the Horrible memories, and that made me scared! Probably this genre is not for me??
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4 Miky
May 21, 2020 at 1:49 PM
Well i guess i'm happy seeing him being so busy and demand...The premise sounds intresting and done right could be a suprise...Guess the zombie here don't loose their mind or will he be the special case...Can say i'm curious what they will bring new to it...Guess he'll have fun with all this different roles rather than the usual CEO...
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5 kimchiturka
May 21, 2020 at 1:57 PM
Ready, missvictrix?
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missvictrix
May 21, 2020 at 3:52 PM
*runs and hides* haha actually no, this could be a riot - who knows!
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
May 21, 2020 at 6:05 PM
Zombie CJH is going to have a hard time keeping his eyeballs in his sockets this time.
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dramafan100
May 24, 2020 at 12:05 AM
Please, be the one. I cant wait @missvictrix
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Ainos
May 21, 2020 at 7:31 PM
I was thinking the same... 🤣
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6 Ayan
May 21, 2020 at 2:08 PM
Jin-hyuk, are you okay???
Are you stuck in a groundhog day/sliding doors situation?
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Ayan
May 21, 2020 at 2:09 PM
The first step is admitting you have a problem...
The second step is to hire someone to choose your projects.
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Eazal
May 21, 2020 at 2:32 PM
🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
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Alessar
May 24, 2020 at 9:31 AM
When it's this bad I suspect that he's in a Bad Contract or turned down someone high up's sexual advances so they're giving him terrible projects. I am serious about this.
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Hayou
May 24, 2020 at 10:59 AM
I really hope that isn't the case O-o
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Ayan
May 25, 2020 at 2:19 AM
Yes, I find it very odd how he has starred in some pretty big shows and is now being offered dramas like rugal. Also surely he would be promoting his own shows more on variety channels or being involved in other projects?
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7 Kairoskat 💐
May 21, 2020 at 2:38 PM
Hahahahahaha! The description is so weirdly funny.
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Kairoskat 💐
May 21, 2020 at 3:01 PM
This can be and should be a comedy! Don't go serious zombie mode, show. Maybe CJH wants to show his comedy chops. He's been taking serious roles most of the time~
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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
May 23, 2020 at 1:22 AM
In my opinion, 98% of zombie flicks should be horror comedy, and several of the best ones ARE. So. Yes.
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
May 21, 2020 at 5:57 PM
@leetennant would love this. She loved CJH in Rugal.
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
May 21, 2020 at 6:29 PM
Your job is to torture me, isn't it?
This is revenge for the Oppa Law.
Anyway, this sounds awful. I hope we all watch it and that @missvictrix is forced to weecap it too.
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YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
May 22, 2020 at 3:57 AM
@missvictrix is in the throes of the Owfulppa Syndrome. Oppa is so awful - awful acting, awful hair, awful lines - but the awful just sucks her in. And next thing you know, she's bent over the laptop, possessed, typing, typing, typing... It's terrifying.
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missvictrix
May 22, 2020 at 6:25 AM
So essentially it's CJH that owes me the shoulder massage for being hunched over the laptop for days? I'm game
Kairoskat 💐
May 21, 2020 at 6:47 PM
He needs to keep his emo hair. Cover the loose eyeball. Huuu
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lately
May 22, 2020 at 12:41 AM
Now it all makes sense :D
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8 Eazal
May 21, 2020 at 2:41 PM
I’ll just say one thing: at last! A drama starting with Z!!!
@wapzy yessssssssssssss
We don’t need to watch it to put it on our name list, do we? 😶
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wapz
May 22, 2020 at 2:51 PM
No, thankfully we don't!
Also what's equal parts eery and amazing is that @sicarius literally called out a similar name for drama z, Zombie Prosecutor and now we have Zombie Detective atleast. You might just be reading dramabeans, drama gods but not everything is supposed to be taken seriously.
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9 bong-soo
May 21, 2020 at 2:52 PM
Choi Jin-hyuk was lead in two of my all time favorites PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and TUNNEL.
What happened? How about P&P 2 or TUNNEL 2?
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10 Ayan
May 21, 2020 at 3:45 PM
I'm still laughing at this synopsis, this is what I needed to read today.
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11 frabbycrabsis loves KBS Drama Specials
May 21, 2020 at 4:43 PM
Jokes aside, he clearly deserves better.
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12 Hayou
May 21, 2020 at 4:54 PM
Okay now I just feel bad for him.
His drama choices are just getting weirder and weirder by the second.
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13 fogcity
May 21, 2020 at 5:15 PM
Minus the crime angle, this sounds like the Nicholas Hoult movie "Warm Bodies".
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
May 21, 2020 at 6:46 PM
Warm Bodies was a wonderfully written re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet about the way in which war dehumanises us. I don't see the parallels in this description myself.
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beffels
May 21, 2020 at 11:17 PM
depends on how you want to describe Warm Bodies though, you could also say “it’s the love story of a human and the zombie who ate her boyfriend’s brain” which sounds just as weird as this does 😅
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Kurama
May 22, 2020 at 12:37 AM
The humor with the zombies who were so slow in their airport was so funny.
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fogcity
May 22, 2020 at 6:41 AM
I was thinking about how Hoult's zombie character comes back to life. I'm not a big zombie movie fan but that was the only time I ever saw a zombie become human again.
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LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
May 22, 2020 at 2:35 PM
Yes the zombism was a metaphor for how war dehumanises us. Thus he literally regained his humanity at the end.
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14 Bebe | Nessa❣️
May 21, 2020 at 5:18 PM
He’s type-casting himself
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15 YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
May 21, 2020 at 5:46 PM
*Bursts into hysterical laughter*
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16 beffels
May 21, 2020 at 6:54 PM
Is this going to be one of those things where zombie doesn’t actually mean zombie so much as zombie-like but is actually caused by some terrible (but ultimately curable) illness? That’s the only way this plot makes sense to me.
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17 Ainos
May 21, 2020 at 7:36 PM
The synopsis I read in another site made it sound more comedic. But I am intrigued at what other weird drama he can get himself into. So I will definitely watch if he accepts the role.
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18 happiness
May 21, 2020 at 9:04 PM
Someone get this poor man in a Rom-com pleasee
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Havi
May 21, 2020 at 9:33 PM
This is a rom com. With crime and zombies.
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Eazal
May 22, 2020 at 1:35 AM
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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19 Amy
May 21, 2020 at 9:49 PM
I loved him in P&P and TUnnel. I saw someone saying that he has zero emotional response but I think he is quite good with the right dramas.
Even his last drama where he was a defense lawyer was still watchable. But what's with Rugal and now this one. I can imagine RUgal being good at least on paper. But this. OMG
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Hayou
May 23, 2020 at 12:24 PM
I thought he was soo good in devilish joy, tunnel, P&P, and justice. He was one of the few actors that managed to catch my attention in recent years. But then he choose to play as that weirdly written character in last empress, going on to rugal which is now his worst drama in his filmography, and finally this weird drama with a questionable plot....
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20 WishfulToki
May 21, 2020 at 10:06 PM
So zombies are taking over dramaland this year? Yay.
I think I'll just watch the first two episodes of GU FAMILY BOOK instead. Forest gumiho who becomes a raging demon with mane of glory is much more interesting.
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mindy
May 22, 2020 at 3:24 AM
I was thinking that exactly. What is with this zombie trend?!
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fogcity
May 22, 2020 at 6:43 AM
Kingdom is a big hit. Train to Busan is getting a sequel too.
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missvictrix
May 23, 2020 at 5:46 AM
@wishfultoki I loved him in that role...
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21 Eazal
May 22, 2020 at 1:37 AM
There’s this Spanish Song that I love:
My boyfriend is a zombie
He’s a living dead
He came to the living to be with me
My life is at last meaningful
I got my love back
And also rotten hair!!
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22 egads aka Dame Maggie
May 22, 2020 at 4:17 AM
Did Choi Jin-hyuk lose a bet with the devil and he is being forced to take on the worst and most ridiculous dramas? Or, is there some kind of bad-drama competition happening with kdrama actors (See: Melty, Forest, and Rugal). Or, and I think this is the one, do these Korean actors love all the attention from @missvictrix and are choosing projects so she will write her lovely weecaps about them?
Seriously CJH, I think you have a problem.
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Ally
May 22, 2020 at 10:15 AM
Unfortunately, I hv watched all those bad dramas mentioned. I think I got to hv a chkup myself too…. 😅😅
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23 miss h
May 22, 2020 at 7:49 AM
I liked Choi Jin-hyuk in Tunnel but then The Last Empress and Rugal have me questioning whether he can act. I'm not sure this is the drama to change my mind.
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24 💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
May 23, 2020 at 1:19 AM
So this makes the second time that I have (effectively) called a Zombie drama just days before news release...
Is this some secret superpower I didn't know I had?
Like I know I joke about zombies making everything better (or at least they can hardly make anything worse) but of all the requests for the Drama gods to listen to, THIS is what they pick?
Welp.
*shall we go for a third time in a few years?*
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25 dramafan100
May 24, 2020 at 12:02 AM
Listen, the only thing we know about zombies is that they need to eat brains or humans to survive, that they are slow and they are 'zombie' like.
This drama sounds like they will add more to what zombie is supposed to be. So far as it is believable fantasy, it sounds good to me.
Why do we have to believe whoever made up the first zombie characteristic anyways.
It is like vampire stuff. The only thing that has stayed the same about them is that they have to drink blood to survive and that they are immortal. Other than that, they got very creative about vampires - they even made them shimmer in sunlight.
So, perhaps, this zombie does not have any rotting parts.
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26 Jinx
May 24, 2020 at 8:17 AM
He is one of the best kissers on screen, so I guess as a Zombie there will not be too much of that going on! 😔 Do a rom-com please!!
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27 Jance
May 25, 2020 at 12:40 PM
I'd much rather watch Vampire Prosecutor 3. That story actually worked and we're still on a cliffhanger... TT_TT
(Or Missing Noir M, or Special Affairs Team Ten!) OCN always drops their best dramas!
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